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October
2006 Archives

First
US Citizen Indicted for Treason Since WWII Era 11 Oct 2006 A
former resident of Orange County, Calif., has become the first person
to be charged with treason against the United States since the World
War II era, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. Adam
Gadahn "gave al Qaeda aid and comfort ... with intent
to betray the United States," according to the treason count in the
indictment, which was returned by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana,
Calif. [The first 'person' to be indicted for treason should be George
W. Bush.]

US
weighs first treason charges in over 50 years
11 Oct 2006 A California-born convert to Islam could become the first
American accused of treason since World War Two after he appeared in
al Qaeda [al CIAduh] videos, sources familiar with the man's
case said on Wednesday.

Al
Qaeda Suspect: U.S. Government Gave Me LSD 11 Oct 2006 An alleged
operative for 'Al Qaeda' imprisoned for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant
is saying he was tortured and forcibly medicated
with "a sort of truth serum" while in a Navy brig. Lawyers for Jose
Padilla made the claims of torture in a motion filed last week with
a federal court in Florida. "He was threatened with being cut with
a knife and having alcohol poured on the wounds. He was also threatened
with imminent execution," the chief federal defender in Miami, Michael
Caruso, wrote. "Additionally, Padilla was given
drugs against his will, believed to be some form of lysergic acid diethylamide
(LSD) or phencyclidine (PCP), to act as a sort of truth serum
during his interrogations." Padilla's attorneys argued that the alleged
torture constitutes "outrageous government conduct" that requires that
the criminal case against Padilla be dismissed.

Jose
Padilla claims US agents tortured him 10 Oct 2006 Jose Padilla
is claiming that US agents tortured him after he was charged with being
an al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] operative. In this Intelligence Report:
startling details of Padilla's allegations.

Court
to rule on UK Guantanamo cases 12 Oct 2006 Relatives of British
residents still held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay camp will
learn on Thursday whether their latest legal moves to force the UK Foreign
Secretary to seek their release have been successful. They have challenged
the High Court's refusal earlier this year to condemn the Foreign Office
for not putting pressure on the Unites States for their release.

Bankruptcy
Judge Denounces U.S. Policy 09 Oct 2006 A judge who usually
constrains his opinions to the technicalities of bankruptcy law broke
from habit last week and denounced U.S. policy on the detention of "enemy
combatants" as "the tactics of the old Soviet Union." In an e-mail
message to National Public Radio that was read aloud on NPR's "Morning
Edition" program Friday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Leif Clark attacked the
views of a former Bush administration official who had framed the White
House policy on the detention of suspected terrorists.

Iraq
deaths put at 655,000 11 Oct 2006 American and Iraqi public
health experts have calculated that about 655,000 Iraqis have died as
a result of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent violence,
far above previous estimates.

Violence
forces 1,000 Iraqis a day to flee homes: U.N. 11 Oct 2006 Over
1,000 Iraqis are fleeing their homes each day because of rampant [US]
violence, and revenge killings are "totally
out of control," the U.N.'s top humanitarian official said
on Wednesday. Jan Egeland, U.N. Under-Secretary General, told a news
conference that sectarian violence and military operations had forced
over 315,000 to flee their homes in the past eight months.

Baghdad
death toll: 110 in two days 11 Oct 2006 Iraqi police found 50
bodies dumped across Baghdad yesterday, apparent victims of 'sectarian'
[US] death squads, and a bombing at a bakery in the capital killed 10
people in the biggest single attack of the day. The discovery of the
bodies, many tortured and all shot,
brought to at least 110 the number found in Baghdad in the past two
days, an Interior Ministry official said.

5
Killed in Violence Around Iraq 11 Oct 2006 Violence around Iraq
claimed at least five lives on Wednesday, including a bomb in a parked
car that exploded next to a police patrol in southeastern Baghdad, killing
two passers-by.

Army:
Troops to Stay in Iraq Until 2010
11 Oct 2006 The U.S. Army has plans to keep the current level of soldiers
in Iraq through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday, a later date
than any Bush administration or Pentagon officials have mentioned thus
far.

No
way out soon in Iraq, Rove tells GOP faithful 10 Oct 2006 Pulling
U.S. troops out of Iraq now could leave behind a [US] terrorist state
with oil revenue to finance attacks
around the world, White House political strategist Karl Rove said in
Fayetteville on Tuesday.

Bush
Says North Korea Faces 'Serious Repercussions' 11 Oct 2006 President
[sic] George W. Bush said North Korea must face "serious repercussions"
for its claim that it tested a nuclear device while pledging to deal
with the crisis through diplomacy rather than military confrontation.

Quake
off Japan said source of false nuke test report 10 Oct 2006
The U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday it had detected a 5.8 magnitude
earthquake off the coast off northern Japan and a U.S. official said
the temblor appeared to be the source of speculation that North Korea
had tested another nuclear device.

New
Bush Space Policy Unveiled, Stresses U.S. Freedom of Action
07 Oct 2006 U.S. President [sic] George W. Bush has authorized a sweeping
new national space policy, green-lighting an overarching national policy
that governs the conduct of America’s space activities. Without
fanfare [of course], the White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy (OSTP) rolled out the National Space Policy on
October 6—a document
that supersedes a September 1996 version of the directive... The policy
calls upon the Secretary of Defense to "develop capabilities,
plans, and options to ensure freedom of action in space, and, if directed,
deny such freedom of action to adversaries." The Director of
National Intelligence is charged by the policy to "provide a robust
foreign space intelligence collection and analysis capability that provides
timely information and data to support national and homeland security."

Letter
From Space Journalists to NASA Administrator Griffin Regarding Recent
Security Policy Changes at NASA Headquarters
10 Oct 2006 'Dear Dr. Griffin: As journalists who cover NASA, we are
deeply concerned about the new policy effective October 1 barring
all news media from entering headquarters in Washington without an escort
from the Office of Public Affairs. This policy, made without
consultation with the media, runs directly counter to the space agency's
longstanding tradition and reputation for openness and cooperation with
reporters and editors. In order to receive a NASA badge, journalists
must provide detailed information as well as their fingerprints to agency
security officials. The badge entitles media to meet with officials
within headquarters without a constant escort. Under the new policy,
the only advantage that the badge will confer is the ability to pass
through security without being searched. We
are unclear as to why this change was made, and the nature of the threat
posed by credentialed journalists.'

Bush
administration encouraged to use kids as informants to quell school
violence [Stop sending CIA snipers on killing sprees as Weapons
of Mass Distraction - that'll work.] 10
Oct 2006 Encouraging school kids to be informants
when necessary may be one way to stop violence before it erupts, a summit
called by Dictator George W. Bush was told Tuesday. "Our first line
of prevention is really having good intelligence," Delbert Elliott,
director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence in Boulder,
Colo., told participants in a conference called by the Bush regime in
the wake of a spate of recent [CIA] shootings in schools.

Guardsmen
on patrol in New Orleans shoot man
10 Oct 2006 Two Louisiana National Guard soldiers shot at a man, officials
said. Monday’s shooting occurred when the man, whom police didn’t identify,
refused an order to drop an object in his hand [?!?] as he approached
the soldiers.

Pennsylvania
Officer Shoots, Kills Man
11 Oct 2006 A Reading police officer shot and killed a man in the city
Monday night. Police said Thomas Troop was inside his home on North
6th Street when he was shot. Police said Troop refused to drop a knife
and moved toward the officer [?!?] before he was shot.

FBI
Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills --33 of 12,000 Have Some
Proficiency 11 Oct 2006 Five years after Arab terrorists attacked
the United States, only 33 FBI agents have even a limited proficiency
in Arabic, and none of them work in the sections of the bureau that
coordinate investigations of international terrorism, according to new
FBI statistics.

Professor
says U.S. gov't behind 9/11 attacks
11 Oct 2006 An American professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
who believes the U.S. government organized the Sept. 11 attacks has
included his essay comparing President [sic] Bush to Adolf Hitler in
a book of essays students are required to purchase for his course.

"Hitler
had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush, so comparing Bush to Hitler would
in many ways be an insult to Hitler." [Exactly.]--Kevin
Barrett UW
Instructor Compares Bush to Hitler 11 Oct 2006 A university
instructor who came under scrutiny for arguing that the U.S. government
orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks likens President [sic] Bush to Adolf
Hitler in an essay his students are being required to buy for his course.
The essay by Kevin Barrett, "Interpreting the Unspeakable: The Myth
of 9/11," is part of a book of essays by 15 authors called "9/11 and
American Empire: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Speak Out."

Plane
crash in New York triggers air defence 11 Oct 2006 A small plane
crashed into a high rise apartment building on the East Side of Manhattan
on Wednesday, killing at least one person, jogging fears of another
terrorist attack and triggering deployment of US fighter aircraft, broadcast
reports said. Within a half hour or 40 minutes after the crash at 2:45
pm, the Pentagon had scrambled fighters from the North American Air
Defence over New York City's airspace, Cable News Network reported.

Yankees'
player Lidle killed in NY plane crash 11 Oct 2006 A New York
Yankees player was killed when he crashed his small aircraft into a
52-story building on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side on Wednesday,
the famed baseball team said.

'Vaccinate
11-year-olds against sex virus'
06 Oct 2006 Girls as young as 11 should receive compulsory [deadly]
vaccinations 'against' a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical
cancer, according to an influential medical journal. The Sunday Telegraph
revealed
last month that ministers have commissioned secret research into parental
attitudes towards a concerted vaccination programme in primary schools.

GOP
Officials Brace for Loss of Seven to 30 House Seats 10 Oct 2006
Republican campaign officials said yesterday that they expect to lose
at least seven House seats and as many as 30 in the Nov. 7 midterm elections,
as a result of sustained violence in Iraq and the page scandal involving
former GOP representative Mark Foley.

New
voter registration laws leave thousands off the rolls 10 Oct
2006 Some of this year's elections could be decided by those who can't
vote. Across the country, new laws restricting
who can register and vote have reduced the number of people who are
eligible. Some of those laws have been blocked in court.
Even so, critics say, the damage has been done.

Prosecutor:
Rove didn't sway spam probe
11 Oct 2006 Presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the
prosecution of a man accused of manipulating stock prices, a prosecutor
says, disputing the man's claims that Rove set off probes to retaliate
for a flood of spam e-mails to President [sic] Bush.

FBI
investigating actions of Specter staff member 11 Oct 2006 The
FBI is investigating whether a member of Sen. (R-PA)
Arlen Specter's staff broke the law by helping her husband, a lobbyist,
secure almost $50 million in Pentagon spending for his clients, the
senator acknowledged Tuesday.

Foley
Cruising in His BMW; Another Dorm Visit in 2000 11 Oct 2006
Rhonda Schwartz Reports: A staff supervisor at the dorm for congressional
pages intervened when former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL)
tried to pay the teens a nighttime visit in the summer of 2000, ABC
News has learned. The pages were having an informal "mixer" party in
their dorm at the Tip O'Neil building behind the Capitol, according
to a former page who was 17 at the time.

Egypt
detects new human H5N1 bird flu case 10 Oct 2006 Egypt has detected
its first human case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus since
May in an Egyptian woman who raised ducks from her home, a World Health
Organisation official said on Tuesday.

*****

CIA
kidnap victim tells of torture
11 Oct 2006 A German who says he was kidnapped in Europe and held for
five months in Kabul broke down as he told a Spanish court he was tortured,
force-fed and dumped hundreds of kilometres from home. The case
of Khaled al-Masri has fuelled debate in Europe about secret CIA terrorism-suspect
flights, and led Spain to investigate whether US secret services used
an airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca as part of their operations.

German
Tells Court CIA Kidnapped Him 09 Oct 2006 A German citizen testified
Monday in a Spanish court that he was kidnapped and tortured by U.S.
intelligence agents in 2003, then flown by the CIA to Afghanistan where
he was imprisoned and abused [*tortured*]
for five months. Khaled al-Masri, 43, broke down in tears several times
during his testimony before National Court Judge Ismael Moreno, who
is investigating reports that the CIA used a Spanish airport to secretly
transfer suspected terrorists to countries where they were tortured.

N.C.
House Members Call for Investigation of 'Torture Taxi' Company
(Stop NC Torture Taxis) 09 Oct 2006 On October 2, twelve members of
the North Carolina House of Representatives called on Robin Pendergraft,
director of the State Bureau of Investigation, to launch an investigation
of Aero Contractors, which conducts torture
flights for the CIA from the Global TransPark, a state funded
agency in Kinston, N.C. Aero also conducts torture flights from Johnston
County Airport, near Smithfield, N.C.

US
inquiry into jail abuse a cover-up: Hicks lawyer 11 Oct 2006
A United States Defence Department investigation that found David Hicks
suffered no abuse while in US custody was the "biggest cover-up of all
time", his US military lawyer says. Major Mori, who has represented
Mr Hicks since 2003, told the Herald that it was likely that
Mr Hicks had been stomped on during his detention. He had also
been able to verify that Mr Hicks had had his head "rammed in"
when detained by US forces in Afghanistan, rendering him unconscious.

Illegal
detention of ex-Guantanamo prisoner
09 Oct 2006 A division bench of the Peshawar High Court on Monday put
on notice the defence division secretary and the NWFP advocate-general
in a habeas corpus petition, filed against the illegal detention of
an Afghan scholar, Abdur Raheem Muslim Dost by an intelligence agency.

Iraqi
kidnapped journalist found dead 10 Oct 2006 The Journalistic
Freedoms Observatory said on Tuesday that Iraqi journalist Azad Mohammed
Hassan was found killed after he was kidnapped by an armed group a week
ago.

Fire
breaks out at U.S. base in Baghdad 10 Oct 2006 A fire broke
out at an ammunition dump at a U.S. base in southern Baghdad on Tuesday
night, causing a series of explosions that rocked the capital, the U.S.
military said in a statement.

Barrage
of blasts rock Baghdad 10 Oct 2006 A barrage of about 20 blasts
rocked districts across Baghdad on Tuesday night, police and witnesses
said. Reuters reporters counted more than 10 explosions in the space
of a few minutes. The blasts began around 11 p.m. (4 p.m. EDT).

Bombing
at Iraq Bakery Kills at Least 11 10 Oct 2006 A bombing at a
Baghdad bakery killed at least 11 people Tuesday. The bomb, planted
under a car in the neighborhood of Dora - was the worst of the day's
attacks, which left at least 22 dead across the country.

Gunmen
assassinate Iraqi Vice-President's brother
10 Oct 2006 [US] Gunmen wearing military uniforms assassinated the brother
of Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice-President in his home yesterday - the third
sibling the official has lost this year to the country's violence.

Thanks
to Bush:More
than 300,000 Iraqis have fled 10 Oct 2006 More than 300,000
Iraqis have fled their homes to other parts of the country to escape
violence since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, with the rate swelling
in the past six months of Shiite-Sunni killings, the immigration minister
said Tuesday.

Making
[Stealing] Water From Thin Air
06 Oct 2006 A company that developed technology capable of creating
water out of thin air nearly anywhere in the world is now under contract
to nourish U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq [and to steal more water from
the Palestinians]. The water-harvesting technology was originally the
brainchild of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
[DARPA],
which sought ways to ensure sustainable water supplies for U.S. combat
troops deployed in arid regions like Iraq.

Nearly
75 die in clashes, blasts in Afghanistan 10 Oct 2006 A bomb
ripped through a government vehicle in eastern Afghanistan yesterday
and killed five people while the security forces reported they had killed
more than 70 militants in clashes at the weekend.

Eisenhower
Carrier Group Sails for Iran Theater By Dave Lindorff The nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its accompanying strike force of cruiser,
destroyer and attack submarine slipped their moorings and headed
off for the Persian Gulf region on Oct. 2, as I had predicted in
a piece
in The Nation magazine a few weeks back. The Eisenhower strike force,
according to my sources, is scheduled to arrive in the vicinity of Iran
around October 21, at the same time as a second flotilla of minesweepers
and other ships.

Rummy's
North Korea Connection --What did Donald Rumsfeld know about
ABB's deal to build nuclear reactors there? And why won't he talk
about it? By Richard Behar and Brenda Cherry 12 May 2003 ...[I]t's
surprising that there is no clear public record of his views on the
controversial 1994 deal in which the U.S. agreed to provide North Korea
with two light-water nuclear reactors in exchange for Pyongyang ending
its nuclear weapons program. What's even more surprising about Rumsfeld's
silence is that he sat on the board of the
company that won a $200 million contract to provide the design and key
components for the reactors. The company is Zurich-based
engineering giant ABB, which signed the contract in early 2000, well
before Rumsfeld gave up his board seat and joined the Bush administration.

White
House casts doubt on N. Korean nuclear arms 10 Oct 2006 The
White House on Tuesday tried to raise doubts about the strength of North
Korea's nuclear program and sought to play down the significance of
its reported test of an atomic weapon.

N
Korea tells US: you can't threaten us 11 Oct 2006 The world's
newest nuclear power, now brandishing a missile threat, wants to sit
"face to face at the negotiation table with the United States".

US
wants swift payback for nuclear test 10 Oct 2006 The United
States proposed today a series of UN financial and weapons sanctions
to punish North Korea for detonating a nuclear device, including inspections
of cargo going in and out of the country.

Bush
warns N Korea but options are limited
09 Oct 2006 Although President [sic] George W. Bush delivered a stern
warning to North Korea over the consequences of its nuclear test, analysts
say the US has few options but to rely on its international leverage,
which has been severely weakened by the war in Iraq.

Punitive
measures on the agenda 10 Oct 2006 The UN security council held
an emergency session yesterday to discuss imposing tough sanctions on
North Korea over its claim to have conducted an underground nuclear
test.

Australia
backs N Korea sanctions 10 Oct 2006 Foreign Minister Alexander
Downer has told North Korea's ambassador to Australia that the government
will support sanctions against the regime in response to its first nuclear
weapons test.

America
trains Abbas' loyalists in secret camp in Jericho 08 Oct 2006
In an apparent American step to ignite a Palestinian
civil war, high-ranking Palestinian sources have unveiled
that the United States was establishing a secret military camp in the
West Bank city of Jericho to train the PA presidential guards (Force-17).
The concealed American step comes in the framework of preparing that
force for fighting against Hamas Movement under American and Israeli
directives, as the IOF troops sponsored munitions supplies to the PA
presidential guards.

In
N.Y., Sparks Fly Over Israel Criticism --Polish Consulate
Says Jewish Groups Called to Oppose Historian 09 Oct 2006 Two major
American Jewish organizations helped block a prominent New York University
historian from speaking at the Polish consulate here last week, saying
the academic was too critical of Israel and American Jewry.

Brown
targets terror fund charities 10 Oct 2006 There will be "no
hiding place" for people who fund terrorism, Chancellor Gordon Brown
declared as he unveiled new measures to tackle the extremist threat.
Secret intelligence will be used for the first
time to freeze suspect assets, target "dubious" charities,
and tougher rules imposed on bureaux de change, he said.

Leftover
jelly triggers German security alert
09 Oct 2006 A small pile of leftover jelly discarded beside the road
after a wedding party caused a large-scale security alert in Germany
with biochemical experts, firemen and police called in to investigate.

CIA
sniper attacks pay off for Bush's croney$ in the 'security' industry:Bush
addresses summit on school violence 10 Oct 2006 President [sic]
Bush challenged the nation Tuesday to turn its remorse into aggressive
action to keep kids 'safe' [and grow US the police state]. In
panel discussions led by members of his Cabinet, speakers said the best
response is basic: get parents, school leaders, students and police
to work together.

CIA
knew about Cuba bomb plot 10 Oct 2006 An anti-Castro militant
[*terrorist,* not *militant*] now
in a Texas jail warned the CIA months before the 1976 bombing of a Cuban
airliner that fellow exiles were planning such an attack, according
to a newly released US government document. The document shows that
Luis Posada Carriles — who had worked for the CIA but was cut off by
the agency earlier that year — was secretly telling the CIA that his
fellow far-right Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro's communist government
were plotting to bring down a commercial jet. The document does not
say what the CIA did with Posada's tip.

How
the FBI protected Al Qaeda's 9/11 Hijacking Trainer --New Revelations
about Ali Mohamed By Dr. Peter Dale Scott 08 Oct 2006 As I say in our
book, in 1993 Ali Mohamed had been detained by the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police in Canada, when he inquired at an airport after an incoming al
Qaeda terrorist who turned out to be carrying two forged Saudi passports.
Mohamed immediately told the RCMP to make a phone call to the United
States, and the call secured his release. We’ve since been told that
it was Mohamed’s West coast FBI handler, John Zent, "who vouched
for Ali and got him released."

Extremists
advocate murder of immigrants, politicians --National pro-immigrant
marches inspire calls for carnage from radical right By Susy Buchanan
and David Holthouse 30 Mar 2006 Neo-Nazis and anti-immigration extremists
responded to a highly publicized wave of immigration reform demonstrations
in major U.S. cities with open calls for terrorist violence, including
truck bombs, machine gun attacks, and assassinations of U.S. senators
and members of Congress. [Since it's *apparently* legal for the rightwing
to make such calls, why aren't *we* calling for the same
to occur for these Nazis and their supporters? What's good for the
Reichwing goose is good for the Leftwing gander. --LRP]

Mexico
may globalize border-fence issue 10 Oct 2006 Mexico’s foreign
secretary said Monday the country may take a dispute over U.S. plans
to build a fence on the Mexican border to the United Nations.

Arizona
to appeal voter ID case to U.S. Supreme Court 10 Oct 2006 Arizona's
Attorney General said Tuesday he will file an emergency appeal with
the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to reinstate a requirement that
voters show identification at the polls. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals issued an injunction last week barring the state from enforcing
the state's voter-approved identification requirements during the Nov.
7 general 'election.'

Poll:
Dems gain big lead 10 Oct 2006 A Capitol Hill sex scandal has
reinforced public doubts about Republican leadership and pushed Democrats
to a huge lead in the race for control of Congress four weeks before
'Election' Day, the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.

Hastert
to Fire Any Staffer Engaged in Cover-Up[Start with yourself.]
10 Oct 2006 House Speaker [GOPedophile]
Dennis Hastert said he would fire anyone who helped cover up former
Representative Mark Foley's electronic messages to teenage congressional
pages.

Former
Foley aide to testify Thursday 10 Oct 2006 Mark Foley's former
chief of staff, who says he warned the House speaker's staff three years
ago of inappropriate Foley conduct toward pages, is to testify Thursday
before the House ethics committee.

Vehicles
From Sudan to Be Sprayed Against Bird Flu 10 Oct 2006 Vehicles
from Sudan entering Uganda through Koboko and Arua districts are to
be 'disinfected,' reports Frank Mugabi. All vehicles will be subjected
to drive through a disinfection [sic - infection] wheel well
to be sunk at Oraba border post in Koboko district while passengers
will be required to disinfect their shoes. The workshop also agreed
that a check-point be set up at Oraba to check for smuggled fowl.

Warming,
melting Arctic forces native Alaskan village to move 10 Oct
2006 The Inupiaq of Shishmaref have lived in this island village for
generations, but with the waters rising all around and ever fierce storms
blasting the settlement, they are being forced to move far away from
the seas they have always depended upon.

*****

US
push for air strikes 10 Oct 2006 Pentagon hawks will try to
persuade US President [sic] George W. Bush he should order immediate
military air strikes to obliterate North Korean nuclear sites. Australian
National University defence expert Ron Huisken said Mr Bush's chief
advisers would be gunning for action without waiting for a lead from
the United Nations.

'We
will have no more books.
I will redact the [expletive] out of your book so no one will want to
read it.'Suing
Over the CIA's Red Pen --Retired Operative Says Agency Unfairly
Edited His Book 09 Oct 2006 When Gary Berntsen sat down for dinner
last year with the CIA's executive director, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the
agency's No. 3 tried to talk him out of resigning from the National
Clandestine Service... But the Capital Grille meal quickly degenerated
when Berntsen told Foggo that not only was he planning to resign but
he intended to write a book about his experiences. Foggo, according
to Berntsen, stated flatly that Goss wanted no more books published
by current or former CIA officials.

"Bush
Hunted Like a Rat."Way
Radical, Dude
09 Oct 2006 A new video game lets players kill President [sic] Bush.
It's called "Quest for Bush." "Quest for Bush," a.k.a. "Night of Bush
Capturing," is a free online game released by the Global Islamic Media
Front. Armed with a rifle, a shotgun or a grenade launcher, players
navigate various missions that include "Jihad Growing Up," "Americans'
Hell" and "Bush Hunted Like a Rat." In
the final stage, you fight Bush. The gunplay in "Quest for
Bush" is crude, akin to "Doom." The goal is to kill. In the beginning,
the player goes around what looks like a U.S. military camp, with walls
plastered with photos of President [Dictator] Bush, Secretary of Defense
[War Criminal] Donald Rumsfeld and British Prime Minister [Poodle] Tony
Blair, among others. [Is
it the most popular game in the world?]

U.N.
council rebukes N. Korea over nuke claim --U.S. wants sanctions,
Bush calls for 'immediate response' 09 Oct 2006 North Korea's claim
Monday that it had tested a nuclear weapon triggered international rebuke,
with the U.N. Security Council taking just 30 minutes to condemn the
claim and Dictator Bush denouncing it as "unacceptable." The
Security Council will next discuss "appropriate measures"
to respond to the test, Japanese Ambassador Kenzo Oshima said.

North
Korea test "provocative," "unprovoked": WHouse[Just like
his invasion of Iraq] 09 Oct 2006 A North Korean nuclear test would
constitute a "provocative act" and Washington expects the U.N. Security
Council to take immediate actions, the White House said early on Monday.

N
Korea's nuclear test backlash 09 Oct 2006 North Korea today
announced it had carried out its first nuclear weapons test, sparking
an immediate barrage of condemnation from world leaders. The test was
the equivalent to blowing up 550 tons of TNT, a state-run South Korean
geological institute said.

North
Korea in nuclear test claim 09 Oct 2006 North Korea says it
has carried out its first ever test of a nuclear weapon, the state news
agency has reported. A South Korean official said an explosion had been
detected in the north-east of North Korea, measuring 3.5 on the Richter
scale.

Republicans
stand to profit from nuclear test 'fear factor' 09 Oct 2006
Within hours of North Korea’s proclaimed nuclear test yesterday Dennis
Hastert, the Republican speaker in Congress, and John Boehner, the Republican
majority leader on Capitol Hill, issued politically charged statements.
With only a month to go before mid-term congressional elections many
Republicans believe the tests could help restore their waning prospects.

Iraq
arrests cooks after hundreds of police poisoned 09 Oct 2006
Iraqi authorities have arrested a produce supplier and four cooks after
hundreds of police fell sick at their training barracks in an apparent
bout of food poisoning, a spokesman said. "We
are not sure whether there was something in the water or if the food
was spoiled," the officer from the 4th police division, a
largely Shiite unit answering to the interior ministry, told AFP. [See:
Contractor
served troops dirty food in dirty kitchens 14 Dec 2003 The Pentagon
repeatedly warned contractor Halliburton-KBR that the food it served
to US troops in Iraq was "dirty," as were as the kitchens it was served
in, NBC News reported on Friday... The Pentagon reported finding "blood
all over the floor," "dirty pans," "dirty grills," "dirty salad bars"
and "rotting meats ... and vegetables" in four of the military messes
the company operates in Iraq, NBC said, citing Pentagon documents. Halliburton
gets $72 million bonus for work in Iraq 10 May 2005.]

Hundreds
of Iraq Police Sick From Poison
08 Oct 2006 Hundreds of Iraqi policemen fell sick from poisoning Sunday
at a base in southern Iraq after the evening meal breaking their daily
Ramadan fast, and officials said they were investigating whether the
poisoning was intentional. Some of the policemen began bleeding
from the ears and nose after the meal, said Jassim al-Atwan,
an inspector for the Environment Ministry. [Well, it might turn out
to be just another bad meal from Halliburton. --LRP]

Hundreds
of Iraqi police poisoned 09 Oct 2006 Hundreds of Iraqi policemen
fell ill from poisoning Sunday after having their evening meal at a
base located in the town of Numaniyah, southern Iraq. Between 600-700
policemen were affected to varying degrees, and 11 who had the heaviest
amount of the food had died, al-Atwan told AP.

Tigris
River yielding corpses
08 Oct 2006 The Tigris River, which fed the ancient cradle of civilization,
has become a river of death, as hundreds of corpses float south from
Baghdad. A fence-like system of weirs originally trapped lily pads moving
downriver from Baghdad, preventing them from clogging irrigation canals.
Now they catch corpses floating from the capital, ABCNews.com said.
Local police said they've pulled almost 350 bodies of men, women and
children from the filters since January 2005.

Thirty-five
corpses found in Baghdad 09 Oct 2006 Baghdad police found the
bodies of 35 murder victims scattered around the Iraqi capital today,
many of them showing signs of [US] torture and all shot dead at close
range, security officials said.

Iraqi
VP's brother killed in home 09 Oct 2006 [US] Gunmen killed the
brother of Iraq's vice president and kidnapped four body guards from
his home in Baghdad, police said... Elsewhere in Baghdad, police reported
[US] gunmen surrounded an Iraqi army checkpoint and kidnapped 11 Iraqi
soldiers, CNN said.

Gunmen
kill brother of Iraq's VP, carbomb kills 13
09 Oct 2006 [US] Gunmen in camouflage uniforms
killed the brother of Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice President Tareq al -Hashemi
on Monday, drawing swift condemnation from across Iraq's political divide
and senior U.S. officials... A car bomb exploded in a busy Baghdad market
at dusk as people were heading home to break their daylong Ramadan fast,
killing 13 and wounding 46, police said.

US
casualty rate in Iraq worst since Fallujah 09 Oct 2006 The number
of US troops being wounded in Iraq is now at its highest level for two
years as American forces are confronted by increasing sectarian violence
and a continuing 'insurgency.' Figures released by the Pentagon show
that 776 soldiers were wounded in action in Iraq last month.

Next
six months always 'critical' in Iraq debate 08 Oct 2006 General
George Casey, head of US forces in Iraq, has joined the long list of
those to have warned that the next six months will be critical for the
country ... over the past three-and-a-half years. The tradition began
in February 2003 when US Defence Secretary [War Criminal] Donald Rumsfeld,
in a now much mocked prediction, told soldiers based in Europe that
the Iraq war "could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

U.K.
tried to curb U.S. on Iraq, ex-minister says --Blunkett:
Britain was incapable of stopping war plans by Cheney, Rumsfeld
08 Oct 2006 The British government tried to rein in U.S. policy in Iraq
from the outset of the March 2003 invasion but found itself powerless
to do so, a former cabinet minister was quoted on Saturday as saying.

Blunkett:
Cabinet was riddled with animosity 09 Oct 2006 The former home
secretary, David Blunkett, has revealed the depth of the rifts in the
Cabinet and detailed the level of opposition over the decision to invade
Iraq.

US
Marine reports widespread prisoner abuse at Guantánamo By Joe
Kay 09 Oct 2006 A US Marine Corps sergeant has given a sworn affidavit
reporting widespread abuse at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay.
The affidavit comes only a week after the US Congress passed legislation
sanctioning indefinite detention, abusive treatment and denial of due
process and habeas corpus rights for prisoners held at the facility
and at other US prisons around the world.

Australian
government rejects limits on sedition powers
By Mike Head 30 Sep 2006 For the second time in less than a year, the
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has brushed aside key recommendations
in an official report calling for limits on the government’s new sedition
laws.

Afghans
'may swing to Taliban' says Nato commander 09 Oct 2006 Nato's
commander in Afghanistan has warned that the country is at a tipping
point and that the majority of Afghans will begin supporting Taliban
militants unless conditions improve in the country in the next six months.

21
killed by 'dud' bomblets since war
09 Oct 2006 Twenty-one Lebanese have been killed and more than 100 wounded
by unexploded Israeli bombs and bomblets dropped by Israel in the July-August
war, the United Nations and Lebanese police said Sunday.

Olbermann
News Commentaries Target Bush
08 Oct 2006 On August 30, Keith Olbermann ended his MSNBC "Countdown"
show with a blistering retort, questioning both the interpretation of
history and Donald Rumsfeld's very understanding of what it means to
be an American. It was the first of now five extraordinarily harsh anti-Bush
commentaries that have made Olbermann the latest media point-person
in the nation's political divide. Since that first commentary, Olbermann's
nightly audience has increased 69 percent, according to Nielsen Media
Research.

Arrests
made after anti-Bush protest in downtown Portland
06 Oct 2006 (OR) Police made several arrests in the streets of downtown
Portland Thursday afternoon after an anti-Bush rally began spilling
into traffic. The protesters had gathered downtown Portland on Thursday
to call for what they called a regime change in the United States.

Alaska:
2004 Electronic Election Data Was Changed in 2006 By Kay Brown
05 Oct 2006 The Alaska Democratic Party today asked the Division of
Elections to explain why changes were made
in July of 2006 to the electronic database that contains the results
of the 2004 General Election. A review of the audit trail
of the GEMS database for the 2004 elections shows that modifications
were made to the database on July 12 and July 13, 2006.

Republicans
Say They Can Still Win[With Diebold]
--Despite The Foley Scandal, 'Some Issues' [Diebold]
Can Carry G.O.P. Through 08 Oct 2006 In the wake of the Mark Foley
sex scandal, Republicans are doing their best to hold the party together
in the face of the upcoming election in which Democrats are making serious
threats to retake control of Congress.

What's
Wrong With Washington: Exhibit A By Colbert I. King 07 Oct 2006
The powers that be, from Capitol Hill to the White House, will deny
it, but the face of Washington these days is former Florida Republican
congressman Mark Foley and the House GOP leadership, represented by
Speaker J. Dennis Hastert. Together the two men serve as proxies for
much that is wrong with this town.

The
End of a Revolution --Sex, lies and power games are just
the latest symptoms of a Republican Party that has strayed from its
ideals By Karen Tumulty 08 Oct 2006 Every revolution begins with
the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea
left. The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich and
his forces rose from the back bench of the House chamber in 1994 may
well have been written last week in the same medium that incubated it:
talk radio.

Border
Fence - Republicans Lied!!! (again) By Ron Corvus 09 Oct 2006
[Citing a Washington Post article] In
Border Fence's Path, Congressional Roadblocks 06 Oct 2006 No
sooner did Congress authorize construction of a 700-mile fence on the
U.S.-Mexico border last week than lawmakers rushed to approve separate
legislation that ensures it will never be built, at least not as advertised,
according to Republican lawmakers and immigration experts... But shortly
before recessing late Friday, the House and Senate gave the Bush regime
leeway to distribute the money to a combination of projects -- not just
the physical barrier along the southern border. The funds may also
be spent on roads, technology and "tactical infrastructure" to support
the Department of Homeland Security's preferred option of a "virtual
fence."

Medicare
and Medicaid Security Gaps Are Found 08 Oct 2006 Federal investigators
say they have found serious computer security flaws that could lead
to the improper disclosure of sensitive medical information on people
enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.

Postal
Worker Becomes Third Case of Legionaires In Conn. 09 Oct 2006
A third case of Legionaires disease is causing concern in Waterbury
because the victim is a postal worker. The Naugatuck man has become
the third Connecticut resident in the past two weeks to be diagnosed
with the disease.

U.S.
Casualties in Iraq Reach Two-Year High
08 Oct 2006 The number of U.S troops wounded in Iraq has surged to its
highest monthly level in nearly two years as American GIs fight block-by-block
in Baghdad to try to check a spiral of 'sectarian' [US] violence that
U.S. commanders warn could lead to civil war.

Mega
barf alert:US
claims Guantanamo 'saved lives' --Evidence
from the camp where torture is alleged foiled attacks in Britain, says
intelligence chief 08 Oct 2006 The interrogation of detainees
at Guantanamo Bay has saved Britain from at least two major terrorist
attacks, according to President [sic] George Bush's chief intelligence
adviser.

Guantánamo
defense lawyer forced out of Navy
08 Oct 2006 The Navy lawyer who took the Guantánamo case of Salim Hamdan
to the U.S. Supreme Court — and won — has been passed over for promotion
by the Pentagon and must soon leave the military. A Pentagon
appointee, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift embraced the alleged al-Qaida's sympathizer's
defense with a classic defense lawyer's zeal, casting
his captive client as an innocent victim in the dungeon of King George,
a startling [but accurate] analogy for the attorney whose commander-in-chief
[thief] is President [sic] George Bush.

Reporter
was 'shot by US military on way to hospital' 06 Oct 2006 Terry
Lloyd, the ITN journalist, was shot dead by American troops as he was
taken to hospital after being injured in crossfire during the Iraq war,
an inquest heard today. The father of two’s vehicle was seen bursting
into flames before crashing at the side of the road in Basra, southern
Iraq. Mr Lloyd was helped into a minibus but as it sped towards a
hospital, American soldiers riddled it with bullets shooting Mr Lloyd
in the head, it was claimed.

Italian
prosecutors wrap up CIA kidnap case 07 Oct 2006 Italian prosecutors
have wrapped up an investigation into the 2003 suspected CIA kidnapping
of a terrorism suspect in Milan, which could lead to criminal charges
being brought against 38 people, most of them CIA agents.

U.S.
must follow Nuremberg code By David Rupel 06 Oct 2006 Perhaps
it was by some quirk of Intelligent Design that Congress passed the
law legitimizing the Bush administration's right to do whatever it chooses
to detainees (short of rape and mutilation) almost 60 years to the day
of the verdicts at Nuremberg. Two of the Nuremberg trial defendants,
Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel and Gen. Alfred Jodl, were sentenced to
death on Oct. 1, 1946, in part, for delegating Hitler's infamous "commando
order." Hitler ranted that allied commandos who attacked German troops
by stealth were not soldiers but common criminals. Gangsters, he added,
were not covered by the Geneva Convention. Substitute the word "enemy
combatants" for "gangsters," and the Bush administration's approach
is certainly rooted in precedent.

U.S.
project could start atomic war, experts warn 07 Oct 2006 A Pentagon
project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for use as a conventional
weapon against targets such as North Korea and Iran could unwittingly
spark an atomic war, two weapons experts warned Thursday.

America
ponders cutting Iraq in three 08 Oct 2006 An 'independent' commission
set up by Congress with the approval of President [sic] George W Bush
may recommend carving up Iraq into three highly autonomous regions,
according to well informed sources.

Iraq
leaders move to ban inter-sect fighting 08 Oct 2006 Iraqi Sunni
and Shiite religious leaders are planning to sign in Saudi Arabia a
declaration that forbids inter-Islamic fighting, the Organisation of
the Islamic Conference said yesterday. [Right, but the violence will
continue, as it's always been the US death squads carrying out the acts
of terrorism in Iraq.]

Curfew
"until further notice'' ordered in Kirkuk 07 Oct 2006 Authorities
imposed a ban on all pedestrian and vehicular traffic in the northern
city of Kirkuk, which has been hit by a wave of violence recently. Some
2,000 police and Iraqi soldiers used the curfew to conduct a series
of raids, arresting 150 suspected insurgents and seizing more than 220
assault rifles, said police Lt. Gen. Sherko Shaker. The measure was
put in place at 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) Friday, extending the regular 9 p.m.
to 6 a.m. curfew "until further notice,'' Shaker said.

Thousands
of Iraq police hurt since 2004 06 Oct 2006 About 4,000 Iraqi
police have been killed and more than 8,000 injured over the past two
years, the U.S. commander in charge of the police training said Friday.

Bomb
Kills 14 in Iraqi City That Bush Had Lauded as Safe 08 Oct 2006
A suicide car bomb slammed into an Iraqi army checkpoint Saturday and
killed at least 14 people in Tall Afar, a northern city that President
[sic] Bush has previously hailed as a symbol of security and normalcy
in Iraq.

At
least 25 killed in Iraq violence
07 Oct 2006 A suicide bomber rammed a police checkpoint in northern
Iraq with an explosives-laden vehicle Saturday, killing 14 people, including
some who died when their homes collapsed in the blast.

Five
killed in fierce Iraqi firefight 08 Oct 2006 Australian troops
killed at least five combatants in an ambush in Iraq that was meant
to wipe out the Diggers. US F-16 fighter jets were called in to assist
the besieged Diggers.

Soldier
killed by one of his own men 08 Oct 2006 A British soldier killed
in Iraq during an operation to capture a key terrorist leader was shot
by one of his own men, it was reported last night.

Soldier
dies in Afghanistan --Military death toll in Afghanistan
hits 40 as patrol hit by explosion 07 Oct 2006 A roadside bomb killed
a Canadian soldier today as he rode inside a Nyala armoured truck, a
blast-resistant monster hailed by soldiers and brass alike as the ultimate
protection against such attacks.

Rumsfeld
Shift Lets Army Seek Larger Budget 08 Oct 2006 Defense Secretary
[War Criminal] Donald H. Rumsfeld is allowing the Army to approach White
House budget officials by itself to argue for substantial increases
in resources. Pentagon officials said the Army was seeking about $138
billion for the next fiscal year, compared with its $112
billion request last year.

Nations
to pursue sanctions against Iran 06 Oct 2006 Six world powers
agreed Friday to pursue possible U.N. sanctions against Iran over its
nuclear program, but left crucial questions about the scope and timing
of any measures unresolved.

Cheney
Back Delivering the Grim Campaign Speech
--Democrats Cast As Foils to the Nation's Security 08 Oct 2006 Vice
President [sic] Cheney talks about the prospect of [his regime carrying
out] "mass death in the United States." The not-so-happy warrior
of the past two campaign cycles is back on the road delivering a grim
message about danger, defeatism and the stakes of the coming 'election.'

'Bomb
plotter' quizzed in Belgium 05 Oct 2006 Police in Belgium are
questioning an Iranian man who claims to be involved in a plot to blow
up an airliner. The man - whose name has not been released - turned
himself in last week. He said he had been asked by a stranger [CIA]
to blow up a passenger flight from Charleroi, southern Belgium, to Dublin,
Ireland, using liquid explosives.

Md.
State Police Stop Suspicious Vehicle; No Charges 23 Sep 2006
Maryland State Police say they released a 24-year-old Israeli man without
charges Friday night after questioning him about photographing the Fort
McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore. Police say they found a laptop computer
and a digital camera containing pictures of the tunnel inside the van,
but nothing else [?] suspicious.

Castro
Foe [Terrorist] With C.I.A. Ties Puts U.S. in an Awkward Spot
08 Oct 2006 Cubana Airlines Flight 455 crashed off the coast of Barbados
on Oct. 6, 1976, killing all 73 people aboard. Plastic
explosives stuffed into a toothpaste tube ignited the plane,
according to recently declassified police records. Implicated in the
attack, but never convicted, was Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile
who has long sought to topple the government of Fidel Castro. His case
presents a quandary for the Bush regime, at least in part because Mr.
Posada is a former C.I.A. operative and United States Army officer who
directed his wrath at a government that Washington has long opposed.
Mr. Posada received military training in the United States and worked
for the C.I.A. as far back as the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. He played
a role in supplying the contras in Nicaragua. He has admitted, but subsequently
denied, involvement in a string of bombings
of Cuban tourist facilities. [He's a f*cking terrorist
- where's the 'quandary?']

Investigation
shows FEMA spent millions on puppet shows, bingo, yoga [not to mention,
detention
centers] 08
Oct 2006 At the Pinitos Learning Center in Boca Raton, disaster workers
dressed as "Windy Biggie" and "Sunny" teach 30 preschoolers a song about
how the wind is good, even during a hurricane. "Windy Biggie is our
friend. Windy Biggie is strong wind. She turns, turns, turns, turns
around. She's knocking things to the ground." This
is FEMA tax money at work. It's also paying for Hurricane
Bingo, puppet shows, "salsa for seniors," and yoga on the beach.

Letters
on Voter ID Confuse Ga. Voters 06 Oct 2006 Tens of thousands
of Georgia voters recently received letters telling them they must show
a photo ID to cast a ballot Nov. 7 - a message some fear will create
confusion on Election Day, since a judge recently struck down the requirement.
The State Board of Elections mailed more than 300,000 of the letters
- about 20,000 of them after the
judge issued his ruling Sept. 19.

Dems
Positioned to Challenge GOP Control [Oh, but there's *Diebold* and
the DemocRATs will just roll over and submit, as they always do.] 07
Oct 2006 Aided by public revulsion over an Internet-age sex scandal,
Democrats enter the final month of the campaign well-positioned to challenge
for control of Congress, while Republicans increasingly express concern
about holding onto power.

Foley's
ex-aide to testify Hastert was told about conduct in '03 --He
will tell panel House speaker's aide had spoken to lawmaker about contact
with pages 08 Oct 2006 A former senior aide to former Rep. Mark
Foley expects to go before the House ethics committee this week and
testify under oath that he alerted the speaker's
office as early as 2003 to inappropriate contact with teenage
pages by Foley, his attorney said Saturday.

Ex-Page
Tells of Foley Liaison 08 Oct 2006 A former House page says
he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) after receiving explicit
e-mails in which the congressman described assessing the sexual orientation
and physical attributes of underage pages but waiting until later to
make direct advances. The former page said his electronic correspondence
with Foley began after he finished the respected Capitol Hill page program
for high school juniors. His sexual encounter was in the fall of 2000,
he said. At the time, he was 21 and a graduate of a rural Northeastern
college.

Conflicting
Accounts Leave Plot Holes in Foley Saga --House Ethics Committee
and FBI Will Try to Sort Out Who Knew What -- and When 08 Oct 2006
Despite countless hours of TV coverage and reams of newspaper reporting
on the House's handling of the Mark Foley page scandal, numerous fundamental
questions remain unanswered as the FBI and the House ethics committee
begin their first full week of inquiries. Gaps
and inconsistencies in the public accounts include such basic
matters as when House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and his top aides
first learned of concerns about Foley's relationships with male pages,
and what they did about it.

Same
song, different scandal
By Robert Kuttner 07 Oct 2006 Mark Foley was chairman of a House caucus
on missing and exploited children. This was a party that literally put
a pedophile in charge of pedophilia. Does that have a vaguely familiar
ring? It should. It’s the same party that put the oil companies in charge
of energy policy, and invited the drug and insurance industries to write
the Medicare prescription bill for their own maximum profit. As investigations
have revealed, it put lobbyists for polluting industries in charge of
environmental protection. [a must read]

Trial
may hurt Ohio GOP on Election Day 07 Oct 2006 Just a month before
the elections, a former Republican fundraising star is set to go on
trial on charges that he stole millions of
dollars from a state investment in rare coins. Democrats
are poised to take back the governor's office and are in position to
win a majority of the five statewide races, according to recent polls.

AP:
Allen didn't disclose stock options
08 Oct 2006 For the past five years, Sen. George Allen, has failed to
tell Congress about stock options he got for his work as a director
of a high-tech company. The Virginia Republican also asked the Army
to help another business that gave him similar options.

Protesters
corner Jeb Bush in Pa.
07 Oct 2006 Protesters greeted Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on his way to a
campaign event for a Pennsylvania senator, and he briefly took
refuge in a subway station supply closet to avoid the anti-Republican
demonstrators.

Pesticide
exec to lead regional EPA office
07 Oct 2006 Elin Miller will serve as regional administrator for the
EPA's Region 10, which includes Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho.
Miller worked as an executive at Dow Chemical from 1996 to 2004, overseeing
public affairs and the global pest-management and Asia Pacific operations,
according to an EPA news release. Miller most recently served as president
of the North American arm of Arysta LifeScience, a Tokyo-based pesticide
maker. While working in the pesticide industry, Miller served on
the boards of two leading industry lobbying groups, CropLife and Responsible
Industry for a Sound Environment.

U.S.
Rules Allow the Sale of Products Others Ban --Chemical-laden
goods outlawed in Europe and Japan are permitted in the American market.
08 Oct 2006 Destined for American kitchens, planks of birch and poplar
plywood are stacked to the ceiling of a cavernous port warehouse. The
wood, which arrived in California via a cargo ship, carries two labels:
One proclaims "Made in China," while the other warns that it contains
formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical. Because formaldehyde wafts
off the glues in this plywood, it is illegal to sell in many countries.
But in the United States this wood is legal, and it is routinely crafted
into cabinets and furniture.

Marine
Scientists Report Massive "Dead Zones"
05 Oct 2006 Rising tides of untreated sewage and plastic debris are
seriously threatening marine life and habitat around the globe, the
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned in a report Wednesday.
The number of ocean "dead zones" has grown from 150 in 2004 to about
200 today, said Nick Nuttall, a UNEP spokesperson.

Evacuated
N.C. Residents to Return Home 07 Oct 2006 Most residents who
left their homes to escape the fumes from a fire at a hazardous materials
plant began returning Saturday, two nights after officials urged 17,000
people to evacuate.

*****

Bush
cites authority to bypass FEMA law --Signing statement is
employed again 06 Oct 2006 President [sic]
Bush this week asserted that he has the executive authority to disobey
a new law in which Congress has set minimum qualifications
for future heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. To shield
FEMA from cronyism, Congress established new job qualifications for
the agency's director in last week's homeland security bill. Bush signed
the homeland-security bill on Wednesday morning. Then, hours later,
he issued a signing statement saying he could ignore the new restrictions.
Bush maintains that under his interpretation of the Constitution, the
FEMA provision interfered with his power to make personnel decisions.[Lori's
'signing statement' rant: This is f*cking bullsh*t. All the
CIA's Snipers of Mass Distraction
- whether in Baghdad, Iraq or in rural US schools - all the 'sudden'
revelations about a ten-year old 'Law & Order' plot that the media
whores at Faux tried to 'Cold Case' regarding another GOPedophile -
will not deter us from reporting news of Bush's creeping dictatorship.
We will *not remain silent* in the face of US state-sponsored terrorism,
festering since George W. Bush was installed in the *first* GOP coup
d'etat, December 2000. Rendition me now, maggots... --Lori Price Arming
the Left: Is the time now?
--by Charles Southwell]

Venezuela
Official Calls Bush 'Monster' [LOL - It is!] 06
Oct 2006 Venezuela's
foreign minister called President [sic] Bush a "monster" on Friday,
adding to a list of insults by President Hugo Chavez who recently called
the U.S. leader devil and donkey. Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro called
for Bush's removal from the White House and denounced what he called
a worldwide campaign by Washington to block Venezuela's bid for a seat
on the U.N. Security Council. "That monster who is in the White House
must be removed because we, the peoples (of the world), want peace and
justice," Maduro said at a news conference in Caracas.

Lloyd
shot dead by US troops, inquest told 06 Oct 2006 ITN reporter
Terry Lloyd was shot in the head by American troops as
he was being driven to hospital, the inquest into his death
was told today. An account by an Iraqi witness that was read out at
the inquest in Oxford claimed Lloyd was still alive after the original
attack on his car but was killed by US troops as he was driven from
the scene... Deputy assistant coroner for Oxfordshire, Andrew Walker,
said the witness also said he had seen Lloyd's press pass and described
a white Kuwaiti pass clipped on a yellow short-sleeved shirt.

Army
'held back information' over death of ITN journalist 04 Oct
2006 The British military was suspected of not being fully candid about
the death in Iraq of the ITN journalist Terry Lloyd, an inquest heard
yesterday. Stewart Purvis, former chief executive of the news organisation,
told the court that only "limited" information was provided by the Army
about Mr Lloyd, despite repeated requests to the Defence Secretary.

Medic
gets a year in prison in Iraqi's death 06 Oct 2006 A U.S. medic
who helped kidnap an Iraqi grandfather later killed execution-style
by an American squad was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday,
but will end up serving a year under a plea deal... Military Judge Col.
Steven Folsom appeared surprised to learn the plea deal set a year limit
on the sentence and also nullified his earlier sentencing that called
for a dishonorable discharge. The judge learned the details of the
plea agreement on sentencing only after announcing his ruling.

Sailor:
I watched Marines kill Iraqi civilian 06 Oct 2006 A Navy corpsman
testified Friday that Marines in his patrol seized an Iraqi civilian
from his home, threw him into a hole and put
at least 10 bullets in his head after growing frustrated
in their search for an insurgent. "I was shocked and I felt sick to
my stomach," said Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos.

U.S.
Navy medic admits role in Iraqi murder case 06 Oct 2006 A U.S.
Navy medic admitted on Friday to participating in the kidnapping of
an Iraqi civilian but avoided murder charges in a plea deal in which
he agreed to testify on his own role and that of seven Marines in the
Iraqi's death.

US
medic in Iraq kidnap plea deal 06 Oct 2006 A US Navy medic has
pleaded guilty to helping kidnap an Iraqi civilian in Hamdaniya, while
agreeing to testify about his comrades' roles in his death. Seven marines
are at various stages of the military justice process over the kidnap
and murder of Hashim Awad. The case is one of several in which US troops
are accused of murdering civilians in Iraq.

"Everyone
in the group laughed at the others stories of beating detainees."AP
learns Guantanamo guards brag of beatings 06 Oct 2006 Guards
at Guantanamo Bay bragged about beating detainees and described it as
common practice, a Marine sergeant said in a sworn statement obtained
by The Associated Press. This fall, the Navy plans to open a new,
$30-million maximum-security wing at its Guantanamo Bay prison complex,
a concrete-and-steel structure replacing temporary camps. [See: Halliburton
given $30m to expand Guantanamo Bay 18 Jun 2005 A subsidiary
[KBR]
of Halliburton, the oil services group once led by the US Vice-President
[sic], Dick Cheney, has won a $30m (£16m) contract to help build a new
permanent prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.]

Pentagon
to probe Gitmo beatings claim 06 Oct 2006 The Pentagon said
Friday that it will investigate a Marine's sworn statement that guards
at Guantanamo Bay bragged about beating detainees and described it as
a common practice.

4,000
Iraq police killed in past 2 years 06 Oct 2006 About 4,000 Iraqi
police have been killed and more than 8,000 wounded in the past two
years, the U.S. commander in charge of police training said Friday,
but he said the force's performance was improving and officials are
working to weed out militiamen.

Leading
Republican offers dismal view of Iraq 06 Oct 2006 The Republican
chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, a Bush loyalist offered
his darkest assessment of Iraq yet on Thursday, suggesting the war there
was "drifting sideways" without a firm commitment from
its government to disarm militias and rebuild the country.

Israeli
Bomblets Plague Lebanon 06 Oct 2006 Since the war between Israel
and Hezbollah ended in August, nearly three people have been wounded
or killed each day by cluster bombs Israel dropped in the waning days
of the war, and officials now say it will take more than a year to clear
the region of them.

"Any
launch of a long-range nonnuclear armed sea or land ballistic missile
will cause an automated alert of the Russian early warning system."Experts
warn of an accidental atomic war --Nuclear missile modified
for conventional attack on Iran could set off alarm in Russia 06
Oct 2006 Pentagon project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for
use as a conventional weapon against targets such as North Korea and
Iran could unwittingly spark an atomic war, two weapons experts warned
Thursday.

America
boils, calls Bush's policies crime
06 Oct 2006 Hundreds of people called the Bush administration's policies
a crime and held up yellow police tape in front of the White House amid
a nationwide day of protest against him.

Jeb
Bush gets rude welcome --Police disperse angry protesters in
Downtown T-station 07 Oct 2006 (Pittsburgh, PA) Florida Gov. Jeb Bush,
in town for a fund-raiser for Sen. Rick Santorum, had a close encounter
with a large group of anti-Republican protesters as he was making his
way to the Duquesne Club, Downtown... By now, Mr. Bush was cornered.
He was surrounded by signs that said "Pittsburgh is a Santorum Free
Zone,""Honk if you're sick of Rick," and a crowd growing
increasingly louder, according to Jon Vandenburgh, one of the protesters.
"We don't want you here," protesters chanted.

Time
Warner Gives Bush-Bashing Comic the Hook 04 Oct 2006 Comic Paul
Mooney was midway through a taping of the famed Harlem theater's weekly
variety show when the plug was abruptly pulled. Mooney claims the show's
producer, Suzanne de Passe, told him material in his monologue had offended
unnamed officials from Time Warner, whose chairman, Richard Parsons,
heads the Apollo Theater Foundation's board of directors and is among
the country's most prominent black Republicans... Mooney said, "My point
is ever since 9/11, we lost all our rights. They're practicing on the
minorities, but when they get good at it they're going to do it to the
white folks."

Secret
Papers Could Halt CIA Case --Libby Intends to Present Classified
Evidence; Judge Skeptical 07 Oct 2006 Vice President [sic] Cheney's
former chief of staff intends to load up his criminal trial with information
about nine national security matters, the names of foreign leaders and
details about various terrorist groups, according to court filings in
the Valerie Plame leak case. The papers filed this week hint at what
has been taking place behind closed doors as Special Counsel Patrick
J. Fitzgerald tries to limit the amount of classified data that I. Lewis
"Scooter" Libby is permitted to use at his trial, scheduled for January.

Padilla's
lawyers ask for criminal charges to be dropped
06 Oct 2006 Criminal charges against accused al-Qaida operative Jose
Padilla should be thrown out because of "outrageous government conduct"
during his 3 1/2-year detention in a South Carolina Navy brig, Padilla's
defense lawyers say. "The government's conduct vis-a-vis Mr. Padilla
is a stain on this nation's character, and through its illegal conduct,
the government has forfeited its right to prosecute Mr. Padilla,"
his lawyers said in a legal motion filed this week.

Existence
of "Al-Qaeda" Is Crap; Quite Literally By Paul Joseph Watson
06 Oct 2006 Former Leader of the House of Commons Robin Cook, who admirably
resigned in protest of the 2003 Iraq invasion, penned a piece
in the London Guardian shortly before his death that shed light on the
true genesis of the name. "Al-Qaida," states Cook, "literally 'the database',
was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who
were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians."
Former French Military Intelligence official Pierre Henry Bunel expands,
noting that "Al-Qaeda," was an early form of intranet, which was used
by Islamic nations and influential families to communicate with each
other. It was also used by the "American agent," Osama bin Laden
to send coded or covert messages back to his CIA handlers from Afghanistan.

Straw:
I'd rather no one wore veils
06 Oct 2006 The row over whether Muslim women should wear veils today
intensified when Jack Straw said he would rather they were not worn
at all. The Islamic Human Rights Commission said Mr Straw was "selectively
discriminating".

EU
and U.S. set accord on sharing travel data 06 Oct 2006 Seeking
to balance the U.S. fight against terrorism with European demands for
privacy, EU and American negotiators reached a deal Friday on disclosing
extensive personal information about travelers flying from the 25-nation
bloc to the United States. The United States won approval of its demand
that intelligence and law enforcement agencies, including the CIA and
FBI, be allowed to share and study the European information more easily.

Report:
Thousands wrongly on terror list 06 Oct 2006 Thousands of people
have been mistakenly linked to names on terror watch lists when they
crossed the border, boarded commercial airliners or were stopped for
traffic violations, a government report said Friday. More than 30,000
airline passengers have asked just one agency — the Transportation Security
Administration — to have their names cleared from the lists, according
to the Government Accountability Office report.

Bag
Checks to Resume on Boston Subways 06 Oct 2006 Police will resume
inspections of bags on public trains, buses and boats in the greater
Boston area for the first time since the city hosted the Democratic
National Convention in 2004, Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Terrorist)
announced Thursday.

Top
Rove Aide Linked to Abramoff Resigns
--Scandal Claims Its First West Wing Job 07 Oct 2006 A top aide [Susan
B. Ralston] to White House strategist Karl Rove resigned yesterday after
disclosures that she accepted gifts from and passed information to now-convicted
lobbyist Jack Abramoff, becoming the first official in the West Wing
to lose a job in the influence-peddling scandal.

Foley
Could Face Charges in Some States 06 Oct 2006 Even if former
Rep. Mark Foley did not violate federal laws by exchanging sexually
explicit Internet communications with underage boys, he still could
find himself charged under state statutes. In some states, where the
Florida Republican communicated with children, attempting to seduce
a minor might be enough to bring charges. Federal prosecutors investigating
Foley are examining whether Florida authorities might be better positioned
to seek charges against him, according to a senior Justice Department
official who spoke Friday on condition of anonymity.

Voter
registrations faked in GOP drive --About 150 forms questioned
in Metro, Williamson County 06 Oct 2006 At least five apparently
bogus voter registration forms were submitted to the Metro Nashville
election commission by a worker with ties to the Republican National
Committee, and up to 150 other registrations have been called into question,
The Tennessean has learned.

In
Border Fence's Path, Congressional Roadblocks 06 Oct 2006 No
sooner did Congress authorize construction of a 700-mile fence on the
U.S.-Mexico border last week than lawmakers rushed to approve separate
legislation that ensures it will never be built, at least not as advertised,
according to Republican lawmakers and immigration experts.

No
Bush Left Behind --The pResident's brother Neil is making
hay from school reform 16 Oct 2006 George W. Bush's No [Every] Child
Left Behind Act compels schools to prove students' mastery of certain
facts by means of standardized exams. After five years of development
and backing by investors like Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and onetime
junk-bond king Michael R. Milken, Neil Bush aims to roll his high-tech
teacher's helpers into classrooms nationwide. He calls them "curriculum
on wheels," or COWs. Bush's Ignite! Inc. has sold 1,700 COWs since 2005,
mainly in Texas, where Bush lives and his brother was once governor...
The company expects 2006 revenue of $5 million.

Where
is the outrage?Retired
Forest Planner Blasts Secret Forest Service Project By Bill
Schneider 01 Oct 2006 Dick Artley retired from the Forest Service (FS)
on the very first day he became eligible for retirement, September 3,
2003. In an open letter to "fellow citizens who enjoy recreating on
public land with our families" making the rounds in cyberspace, Artley
sharply criticizes the Recreation Site Facility Master Planning (RSFMP)
project
currently underway within the FS. His criticism follows vocal opposition
to the project from green groups like Wild Wilderness and Western Slope
No Fee Coalition that claim it will result in the closing or privatizing
of thousands of recreation sites.

Fire
in North Carolina Spews Chemical Fumes, Forcing Thousands to Flee
07 Oct 2006 Fire at a building that stored industrial chemicals produced
toxic fumes that drove thousands of people from their homes in this
Raleigh suburb early Friday. The fire, which touched off explosions
that caused the plant to collapse, continued burning for most of the
day.

17,000
people flee toxic fire in North Carolina 06 Oct 2006 More than
17,000 residents were asked to evacuate the suburban town of Apex, North
Carolina early Friday after a hazardous materials fire shot flames some
40 metres into the sky. The fire released a greenish-yellow cloud of
deadly chlorine gas into the air that could be seen and smelled from
as far as three kilometres away.

In
pictures: US chemical blast 06 Oct 2006 Up to 17,000 people
were told to evacuate homes in the town of Apex in the US state of North
Carolina after a blast at a chemical plant.

Bush
says he can edit security reports
05 Oct 2006 President [sic] Bush, again defying Congress, says he has
the power to edit the Homeland Security Department's reports about whether
it obeys privacy rules while handling background checks, ID cards and
watchlists. In the law Bush signed Wednesday, Congress stated no one
but the privacy officer could alter, delay or prohibit the mandatory
annual report on Homeland Security department activities that affect
privacy, including complaints.

"Bush
has used signing statements to challenge more than 800 laws."Bush
signings called effort to expand power --Report sees broad
strategy 05 Oct 2006 President [sic] Bush's frequent use of signing
statements to assert that he has the power to disobey newly enacted
laws is "an integral part" of his "comprehensive strategy
to strengthen and expand executive power" at the expense of the
legislative branch, according to a report by the non partisan Congressional
Research Service... Last week, Bush signed the 2007 military budget
bill, but then issued a statement challenging 16 of its provisions.
The bill bars the Pentagon from using any intelligence that was collected
illegally, including information about Americans that was gathered in
violation of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable
government surveillance.

"I
just have to scratch my head and say, 'My God, what have we created
here?'" Unlikely
Terrorists On No-Fly List --List Includes
President of Bolivia, Dead 9/11 'Hijackers'
05 Oct 2006 60 Minutes
has obtained the secret list used to screen airline passengers for terrorists
and discovered it includes names of people not likely to cause terror,
including the president of Bolivia, people who are dead and names so
common, they are shared by thousands of innocent fliers. But the names
of some of the most dangerous living terrorists or suspects are kept
off the list [so Bush bin Laden can hire them]. The 11 British suspects
recently charged with plotting to blow up airliners with liquid explosives
were not on it, despite the fact they were under surveillance for more
than a year.

Sacramento
man indicted for making threats against Bush
05 Oct 2006 A Sacramento man was indicted by a federal grand jury for
allegedly making threats against Dictator Bush, the U.S. Attorney's
Office in Sacramento announced Thursday. Howard Kinsey, 41, is accused
in a Sept. 22 arrest warrant of threatening to take the life and inflict
harm upon the president [?!? Bush isn't the president], U.S.
Attorney McGregor W. Scott said in a press release.

Firm
with alleged CIA ties exits Oregon --Mystery - The owner
of a jet, which activists say carried terrorism suspects, lets its business
license lapse 05 Oct 2006 A Portland tie to a shadowy private jet
and CIA torture allegations has apparently ended. In 2004, a mysterious
Portland, Oregon, company called Bayard Foreign Marketing took ownership
of a Gulfstream V jet that human-rights activists say was used by the
CIA to ferry terrorism suspects to countries that practice torture.
Public records searches turned up no trace of its purported owner, Leonard
T. Bayard. Human-rights groups said they suspect Bayard doesn't exist
and the company was a CIA front.

Cuba
sees hypocritical US freeing CIA-linked bomber
05 Oct 2006 The recording of Tomas Rodriguez's last words is repeatedly
played on Cuban TV 30 years later as a reminder of what Cuba says was
an act of terrorism that the United States, applying double standards,
prefers to sweep under the carpet. Luis Posada Carriles, a former
CIA operative [terrorist] and one of the two anti-Castro
Cuban exiles accused of plotting the bomb attack from Caracas, has been
held in Texas since May, 2005 for illegally sneaking into the United
States. But Havana expects the man it labels "Latin America's bin Laden"
to soon walk free because he has become a political hot potato for the
Bush administration.

CBS:
Death Squads In Iraqi Hospitals--Intelligence
Seen By CBS News Says Hospitals Are Command Centers For Shiite Militia04
Oct 2006 An assembly line of rotting corpses lined up for burial at
Sandy Desert Cemetery is what civil war in Iraq looks like close up...
The takeover began of the main morgue began after the last election
in December when Moqtada al-Sadr's political faction was given control
of the Ministry of Health. The U.S. military has documented how Sadr's
Mahdi Army has turned morgues and hospitals into places where [US] death
squads operate freely.

30
bodies found in Baghdad in 24 hours 05 Oct 2006 The Iraqi police
patrols found 30 bodies in different Baghdad neighborhoods during the
past 24 hours, police said on Thursday. The bodies were bound, blindfolded
and showing signs of torture with bullet holes in different parts of
their bodies, he said.

US
in Iraq (BBC) Gavin Esler talks to retired US Army Major General,
Paul Eaton. 05 Oct 2006 A group of Generals has called on US Defense
Secretary [War Criminal], Donald Rumsfeld, to resign. One of them is
Major General Paul Eaton, now retired. Both he and the other rebellious
generals accuse Rumsfeld of incompetence. But Gavin Esler asks Paul
Eaton if the Generals are trying to mount a political coup?[Hope
springs eternal.]

US
'made it impossible' to free Guantanamo inmates 04 Oct 2006
The UK was unable to take back British residents held at Guantanamo
Bay because of impossible conditions demanded by the US, the Lord Chancellor
said last night. Speaking in Washington, Lord Falconer said the Government
"could not legally deliver" on the terms for their release. The deal
reportedly came with the pre-condition that the prisoners were kept
under 24-hour surveillance if set free in the UK.

Profile:
'Forgotten' Cuba detainees (BBC) 05 Oct 2006 The lawyer acting
for several UK residents being held at Guantanamo Bay has said the Americans
would send them home now if Britain gave the go-ahead. Who are these
people and how did they come to be in Guantanamo?

Torture,
By Any Other Name By Dan Froomkin 05 Oct 2006 President [sic]
Bush repeatedly says he's against torture. The detainee legislation
recently approved by Congress ostensibly bans torture. But that's meaningless
if the Bush administration won't say how it defines the word.

A
special comment about lying --Keith Olbermann on the difference
between terrorists and critics 05 Oct 2006 The president [sic] of the
United States — unbowed, undeterred and unconnected to reality — has
continued his extraordinary trek through our country rooting out the
enemies of freedom: the Democrats. Yesterday at a fundraiser for an
Arizona congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, "177 of the opposition
party said, ‘You know, we don’t think we ought to be listening to the
conversations of terrorists.'" The hell they did. One hundred
seventy-seven Democrats opposed the president’s seizure of another part
of the Constitution. Not even the White House press office could
actually name a single Democrat who had ever said the government shouldn’t
be listening to the conversations of terrorists.

UN
offices get terror warning 05 Oct 2006 The United Nations tightened
security at its European headquarters on Thursday after receiving a
warning that it could be a terrorist target, officials said. The memo,
obtained by The Associated Press, said: "This attack would take place
between October 5 and October 10."

Tories
not concerned about FBI in Canada 05 Oct 2006 Public Safety
Minister Stockwell Day says American FBI agents can travel as far as
they want into Canada without being of concern to him because Canadian
agents do the same thing in the U.S. Day was responding to an audit
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that suggests FBI operations
in Canada are growing — including unauthorized visits.

Official
says U.S. bird flu plans near "state of the art" 05 Oct 2006
U.S. preparations against a possible outbreak of the deadly form of
the H5N1 avian flu virus are solid, but other countries may not be as
ready, a U.S. health safety official warned on Thursday. "We're ...
close to the state-of-the-art in the United States with preparations
and strong biosecurity measures," said Ambassador John Lange, the State
Department's special representative on avian and pandemic influenza.
[See: KBR
Awarded U.S. Department of Homeland Security Contingency Support for
Emergency Support Services 24 Jan 2006 (halliburton.com) "The
contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing
temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing
ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities... to
support the rapid development of new programs."]

Chicago
Plans to Add 100 Stealth Cameras
04 Oct 2006 Chicago will spend $1 million next year to install 100 more
surveillance cameras on high-crime street corners -- this time, cameras
of the stealth variety -- to monitor 'gang and drug activity.'

Anti-Bush
Ad, Call for Ouster 'Treasonous,' Says Bauer
05 Oct 2006 GOPedophile Gary Bauer
says it's a sign of the sickness on the political left that several
high-profile Hollywood personalities, college professors, and even members
of Congress would endorse the efforts of a far-left group calling for
the overthrow of the Bush administration. Pro-family [a la Mark Foley]
activist and American Values [puke] president Gary Bauer believes the
Alliance's ad
border on treason. "If that's not treasonous, I don't know what is,"
he says, "because the ad comes very close to directly advocating violence
or some other activity other than voting." [LOL,
you're gonna *love* this one, maggot: Arming
the Left: Is the time now?
--by Charles Southwell 21 Oct 2003]

Thousands
Nationwide Protest Bush 05 Oct 2006 Hundreds of people called
the Bush regime's policies a crime and held up yellow police tape along
a three-block stretch in front of the White House on Thursday as part
of a nationwide day of protest against the pResident. The 500
demonstrators were among many who gathered for similar events in more
than 200 cities to protest Bush on issues ranging from global warming
to the war in Iraq.

Oaxaca
Protesters on Red Alert
04 Oct 2006 In the heart of this southern Mexican city, protesters grouped
in more than 350 different social organisations, who have been camping
out in the parks and on the streets for over four months, are governing
through people's assemblies and running radio
stations that they have taken over, while their
own security guards keep watch. [We need to do that here,
instead wasting our time with pathetic 'protests' in the US that receive
NO media coverage.]

Livingstone
suspension overturned 05 Oct 2006 The high court has overturned
a decision to suspend Ken Livingstone from his duties as mayor of London.
Mr Livingstone challenged a decision by the Adjudication Panel for England
that he was guilty of being "unnecessarily insensitive and offensive"
in comparing a London Evening Standard journalist with a Nazi.

Security
Breaches Worry Outsourcing Industry 05 Oct 2006 India’s outsourcing
industry, flourishing with business from an expanding base of American
and European customers, is facing greater criticism after a series of
security breaches. On Thursday, a British television documentary scheduled
on the independent Channel 4 will say that a 12-month investigation,
with filmmakers’ clips, had "infiltrated criminal networks which
trade British consumers' bank and other confidential information for
huge profits in India, the world’s call-center capital."

Vote
recount regulation changed 05 Oct 2006 Changing nearly 30 years
of election regulations, House and Senate candidates as well as state
parties will have to abide by federal fundraising limits to pay for
vote recounts, federal regulators decided Wednesday.

Court
blocks Arizona voter ID law enforcement 06 Oct 2006 A federal
appeals court on Thursday blocked an Arizona state law requiring voters
to present identification at polling stations and proof of citizenship
when registering to vote.

Signs
to say Negron will get Foley votes 05 Oct 2006 Supervisors of
elections in former Rep. Mark Foley's district may post signs telling
voters that Joe Negron is the Republican candidate even though it will
be Foley's name on the ballot, Florida elections officials said Thursday.

"The difference could be between a 20-seat loss and 50-seat loss."
Internal
Poll Suggests Hastert Could Devastate GOP 05 Oct 2006 House
Republican candidates will suffer massive losses if House Speaker Dennis
Hastert remains speaker until Election Day, according to internal polling
data from a prominent GOP pollster, FOX News has learned.

Hastert
blames Democrats, ABC News 05 Oct 2006 Republican House Speaker
[GOPedophile] Dennis Hastert, resisting calls for his resignation by
conservative groups over his handling of a sex scandal involving former
Rep. Mark Foley and teenage congressional pages, said Democrats and
ABC News were fanning the controversy. Hastert, R-Ill., told the Chicago
Tribune in an interview published Thursday that he had no intention
of resigning.

Hastert
Takes Responsibility While Lashing Out at Democrats 05 Oct 2006
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, saying "the buck stops here,'' accepted
personal responsibility for the safety of congressional pages while
lashing out at Democrats and the news media for fueling the Mark Foley
sex scandal. The Illinois Republican, battling to hold his post amid
controversy over his handling of the Foley matter, dismissed calls for
his resignation and said core Republican supporters shouldn't desert
the party over the issue.

Panel
Approves Subpoenas in Page Scandal 05 Oct 2006 The House ethics
committee approved nearly four dozen subpoenas Thursday as its investigation
of a page sex scandal sprang to life with a promise by its leaders to
go "wherever the evidence leads us." Speaker Dennis Hastert held to
his assertion that he did not know about Foley's e-mails and instant
messages to former pages until the scandal broke last week. In the past
several days, several Republican lawmakers and staff members said they
were aware of the messages. Democrats were not notified.

Ethics
panel investigates U.S. sex scandal 06 Oct 2006 A congressional
ethics committee approved about 50 subpoenas
on Thursday as it launched a probe into former Rep. Mark Foley's contacts
with teenage assistants in a sex scandal enveloping Republicans as they
struggle to keep control of Congress.

Unredacted
Foley Messages
--Foley's Exchange With Underage Page --Brian Ross and the Investigative
Team 29 Sep 2006 The following is an instant message exchange a former
page says he had with Rep. Foley in 2003. Warning: sexually explicit
language, reader discretion is advised.

Marijuana
may help stave off Alzheimer's --Active ingredient in pot may
help preserve brain function 05 Oct 2006 Smoking pot may stave off Alzheimer’s
disease. New research shows that the active ingredient in marijuana
may prevent the progression of the disease by preserving levels of an
important neurotransmitter that allows the brain to function.

*****

US
sets aside £11m for Iraq 'success party' 05 Oct 2006 What a
celebration they have in mind is unclear. When the celebration will
take place is also uncertain. But Republicans in Washington are so certain
of the US making progress in Iraq and Afghanistan that they have set
aside $20m (£11m) for a "commemoration of success".

Car
and road bombs hit year high in Iraq: US military 04 Oct 2006
The past week has seen the highest number of car bombs and roadside
bombs in Iraq than at any time this year, said a US military spokesman.
"Last week we also saw the highest number of vehicle-borne improvised
explosive devices this year," said Major General William Caldwell, using
the military terminology for car bombs.

Iraq
police brigade linked to death squads --Entire Baghdad police
brigade demobbed for allowing death squads to move freely in capital.
04 Oct 2006 Iraq has demobilised an entire Baghdad police brigade accused
of complicity with 'sectarian' death squads and moved it to a US military
base for retraining, a spokesman for US forces said Wednesday.

Iraqi
police unit linked to militias 04 Oct 2006 Iraqi authorities
have taken a brigade of up to 700 policemen out of service and put members
under investigation for "possible complicity" with death squads following
a mass kidnapping earlier this week, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

Baghdad
bomb kills 14 as blasts reach peak 04 Oct 2006 At least 14 people
were killed and 75 wounded in a car bomb attack on the convoy of Iraq's
industry minister on Wednesday, Interior Ministry sources said. Minister
Fawzi al-Hariri was not in the convoy when it was attacked in central
Baghdad ['tipped-off' by the US?], but two of his bodyguards were among
those killed, said Industry Ministry spokeswoman Dhuha Mohammed.

Attacks
in Baghdad Kill 13 U.S. Soldiers in 3 Days --Officials Cite
Troops' Increased Exposure in Capital 05 Oct 2006 Thirteen U.S. soldiers
have been killed in Baghdad since Monday, the American military reported,
registering the highest three-day death toll for U.S. forces in the
capital since the start of the war.

US
war costs since September 11 exceed $500bn
28 Sep 2006 The Iraq war is currently costing US taxpayers around $2bn
(£1.07bn) a week, as the military replaces damaged equipment and tries
to establish more permanent bases, reports in US newspapers said today.

GOP
lawmaker calls for Rumsfeld to quit 04 Oct 2006 (CT) Rep. Chris
Shays, who is facing a tough challenge from an anti-war Democrat, on
Wednesday called for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign
— a rare demand from a longtime Republican.

"He
hit my head on the ground and the Americans found this funny."Ex-Guantanamo
inmate says German soldiers abused him04
Oct 2006 A Turk with German residency [Murat Kurnaz] who spent years
in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp said in a magazine interview that
German soldiers abused him in Afghanistan shortly after Pakistan handed
him to U.S. authorities in 2001.

Paraguay
refuses diplomatic immunity for U.S. troops 03 Oct 2006 Paraguay's
decision to refuse diplomatic immunity for U.S. troops and not to renew
a military cooperation pact sparked debate Tuesday... Foreign Minster
Ruben Ramirez said Monday that Paraguay and Washington would not renew
a defense-cooperation agreement for 2007 over the South American country's
refusal to grant U.S. troops inside Paraguay immunity from prosecution
by the International Criminal Court. [Why pardon Bush's war criminals,
torturers, and terrorists?]

Kangaroo
Selected as New Hussein Judge By Andy Borowitz 29 Sep 2006 (satire)
Two weeks after the judge in Saddam Hussein’s trial for crimes against
humanity was dismissed for displaying leniency toward the former Iraqi
dictator, the proceedings became embroiled in controversy once again
as legal experts questioned the selection of a kangaroo as the judge’s
replacement.

"I
suspect there's nothing out there."British
Find No Evidence of Arms Traffic From Iran 04 Oct 2006 Britain,
whose forces have had responsibility for security in southeastern Iraq
since the war began, has found nothing to support the Americans' contention
that Iran is providing weapons and training in Iraq, several senior
military officials said.

US
'cannot allow' nuclear N Korea 05 Oct 2006 The US will not accept
a North Korea armed with nuclear weapons, a top US envoy has said, a
day after Pyongyang announced plans for a nuclear test.

Sheridan
claims to be 'victim of MI5 plot' 04 Oct 2006 As a conspiracy
theories go, it has to be one of the more bizarre: MI5 and Rupert Murdoch
had conspired to concoct a videotape to overthrow his crusade for an
independent socialist Scotland. In a political rally that quickly turned
into a personal attack on one of the most powerful media moguls of modern
times, Tommy Sheridan claimed that a video allegedly showing him admitting
to visiting a swingers club was "utterly untrue". The tape, released
by the Murdoch-owned News of the World, was forged by "splicing" extracts
of his own voice with other voices, Mr Sheridan claimed.

Bush
Signs Homeland Security Bill 05 Oct 2006 President [sic] Bush
yesterday signed a homeland security bill that includes an overhaul
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $1.2 billion for fencing
along the America-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration.

Court
says eavesdropping program can continue 04 Oct 2006 The government
can continue to use its [illegal] warrantless domestic wiretap program
pending the Justice Department's appeal of a federal judge's ruling
outlawing the program, an Appeals Court in Cincinnati ruled on Wednesday.

Illinois
State Police unit to focus on online crimes 03 Oct 2006 A new
25-member unit within the Illinois State Police will focus on online
crimes -- including identity theft and child pornography. Governor Rod
Blagojevich today announced the formation of the Internet Crimes
Unit. The proposed changes include making Internet stalking a felony
for first-time offenders and making misrepresenting yourself on the
Internet a criminal offense. [GOPedophiles:
Take note.]

More
Police Cameras Coming In Chicago
--Newest Batch Will Look Like Streetlights 04 Oct 2006 Police will soon
be mounting more cameras across Chicago. The city has announced it will
spend $1 million next year to install 100 more surveillance cameras
to catch crooks in action. Unlike the current cameras, which have blue
flashing lights and are easy to spot, the new ones will be more discreet,
resembling a normal streetlight. [One word: *pebbles.*]

Display
of Banned Books Removed at Harrisonburg High School 04 Oct 2006
(VA) A display at Harrisonburg High School of books that have, at some
point in history, either
been banned or challenged was ordered removed last month
by Harrisonburg Schools Superintendent Donald Ford. The display, which
Ford ordered removed Sept. 27, was part of the American Library Association’s
annual Banned Books Week, the last week of September.

Arrest
over Cheney barb triggers lawsuit 03 Oct 2006 A Denver-area
man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for
causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President [sic]
Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies
concerning Iraq.

CIA
'did warn Rice of 9/11 terror plots' 05 Oct 2006 The embattled
US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, admitted yesterday that she
had received an intelligence briefing from CIA chiefs warning of 'al-Qa'ida'
plots two months before the attacks of September 11, 2001.

"This
story has more legs than a centipede."
[LOL!] 04 Oct 2006 Hardball host, Chris Matthews, commenting
on the Foley scandal

"People
go to prison for much less than this." 04 Oct 2006 MSNBC news
analyst, commenting on the Foley scandal

More
heads may roll as Foley sex scandal widens 05 Oct 2006 Amid
a growing crisis in the Republican Party over the sex messaging scandal
involving disgraced Republican Congressman [GOPedophile] Mark Foley,
it has emerged that warnings about Mr Foley's over-friendliness with
young staff may have dated back to 1995.

Hastert
Working to Staunch Backlash From Foley Sex Scandal
04 Oct 2006 Conservative activist Paul Weyrich, president of the Free
Congress Foundation, reversed his call for House Speaker Dennis Hastert
to resign over the Mark Foley sex scandal after getting a personal call
today from Hastert.

Top
GOP Staffer Forced Out for Role in Page Scandal 04 Oct 2006
Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report: The chief of staff for Republican
Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, resigned after questions were
raised about his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal,
according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill.

Fresh
claims fuel US e-mail row 04 Oct 2006 The US Republican Party
is struggling to contain the scandal surrounding former Congressman
Mark Foley's e-mails to young men amid new allegations. US media revealed
a possible romantic link with a young congressional worker and that
warnings about Mr Foley's conduct went as far back as 1995.

Faux
Mislabels GOPedophile Foley as a Democrat 04 Oct 2006 The 8
pm ET version of Tuesday’s O’Reilly Factor featured some old footage
of ex-congressman, Republican Mark Foley, with a lower third on top
of it with a "D" instead of "R" for party identification.

Ned
Lamont on Joe Lieberman's Defense of Dennis Hastert04
Oct 2006 "Joe Lieberman just can’t bring himself to hold anyone
in Washington accountable, even when the safety of our children is at
stake. If Dennis Hastert knew that Mark Foley was harassing minors and
didn’t do anything about it, he should resign immediately... The fact
that Joe Lieberman says calling for Hastert's
resignation is too 'partisan' demonstrates that he’s been
in Washington so long that he can’t recognize the difference between
what’s right and what’s partisan."

Lobbyists:
Sports Tickets and Springsteen—The E-Mail Trail 09 Oct 2006
The White House has launched an internal ethics inquiry into one [Karl]
Rove aide in response to new e-mails showing that Rove's office had
far more extensive conduct with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff than
previously acknowledged. The e-mails, obtained by a House committee,
show that Rove's executive assistant, Susan Ralston, may have violated
a White House ban on accepting gifts worth more than $20 from lobbyists.
At the same time, Ralston—who previously worked for Abramoff—was helping
the lobbyist and his associates set up meetings with Rove and providing
them with inside info about presidential appointments and White House
decision making, including at least one matter relating to a business
deal in Iraq for an Abramoff client, the e-mails show.

Banks'
$7 Billion Tax-Exempt Bond Ruse Yields Nothing for Needy
04 Oct 2006 During the past decade, local governments across the U.S.
have issued more than 70 of these phantom bonds -- at least $7 billion of them. Proceeds from the tax-exempt bond
sales are supposed to be used to improve homes for the poor or upgrade
health care for the elderly or supply computers to inner-city schools.
Taxpayers never get most of those benefits; the winners are the banks,
insurance companies and financial advisers that get paid millions of
dollars for crafting these transactions and then profit by using bond
proceeds for their own investment gains.

US
House control in Democrats' reach -Reuters poll 04 Oct 2006
Democrats lead in races for 11 of 15 crucial Republican-held U.S. House
seats a month before Nov. 7 elections, putting them within reach of
seizing control of the chamber, according to Reuters/Zogby polls released
Wednesday.

GOPedophiles
trolling for the senior vote:U.S.
to stop seizing Canadian drug imports --New policy allows seniors
to order cheaper prescriptions through the mail 04 Oct 2006 The federal
government will stop seizing small amounts of lower-priced prescription
medications mailed from Canada, officials said. The new policy, which
takes effect Oct. 9 [LOL, just before the 'elections'], was announced
in an e-mail from the Department of Homeland Security to congressional
staff Monday, Nelson said.

Ozone
Hole Matches Record Size 03 Oct 2006 The "ozone hole" over Antarctica
this year has matched the record size of 11.4 million square miles,
the U.N. weather agency said Friday.

*****

"It
is just creepy and
Orwellian." DHS
Funding Software For Gov't to Monitor Opinions of U.S.
04 Oct 2006 A consortium of major universities, using Homeland Security
Department money, is developing software that would let the government
monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders in newspapers
and other publications overseas. Such a "sentiment analysis"
is intended to identify potential threats to
the nation, security officials said.

Judge:
Patriot Act challenge can proceed 03 Oct 2006 Nearly three years
after hearing arguments in the case, a federal judge has ruled that
an American Civil Liberties Union challenge to the constitutionality
of the USA Patriot Act may proceed.

Washington
scrubs NSA wiretapping inquiry 02 Oct 2006 The Washington Utilities
and Transportation Commission decided last week that it will put its
investigation into phone companies' participation in the NSA's wiretapping
program on hold 'til the federal courts have ruled on the topic. In
Oregon, though, the process continues.

In
Bill's Fine Print, Millions to Celebrate Victory04 Oct 2006
Tucked away in fine print in the military spending bill for this past
year by Republicans was a lump sum of $20 million
to pay for a celebration in the nation’s capital "for commemoration
of success" in Iraq and Afghanistan. A paragraph written into spending
legislation and approved by the Senate and House allows the $20 million
to be rolled over into 2007.

Iraqi
Journalists Add Laws to List of Dangers 29 Sep 2006 Ahmed al-Karbouli
was the fourth journalist killed in Iraq in September alone, out of
a total of more than 130 since the 2003 invasion, the vast majority
of them Iraqis... Under a broad new set of laws criminalizing speech
that ridicules the government or its officials, some resurrected verbatim from Saddam Hussein's penal code,
roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged with offending public
officials in the past year.

Britain
to US: we don't want Guantánamo nine back
--British residents have no right to return say officials 03
Oct 2006 The United States has offered to return nearly all British
residents held at Guantánamo Bay after months of secret talks in Washington,
the Guardian has learned. The British government has refused to accept
the men, however, with senior officials saying they have no legal right
to return. Documents obtained by the Guardian show US authorities are
demanding that the detainees be kept under 24-hour surveillance if set
free - restrictions that are dismissed by the British as unnecessary
and unworkable. Although all are accused of terrorist involvement, Britain
says there is no intelligence to warrant the measures Washington wants,
and it lacks the resources to implement them. "They do not pose
a sufficient threat," said the head of counter-terrorism at the Home
Office.

UK
'turned down Guantanamo offer' 04 Oct 2006 Britain has refused
to repatriate UK residents held at Guantanamo Bay because the US
terms of release were too stiff, the lord chancellor says. Lord
Falconer said: "We could not take people back into the UK on terms that
we could not legally deliver." Earlier, the Guardian newspaper claimed
to have seen leaked documents revealing how the Americans had demanded
that any freed detainees would be stopped from leaving the UK. US officials,
the newspaper said, also wanted to be sure that the British would know
immediately if the freed men met known extremists, or planned, supported
or promoted extremism or violence.

Fatal
Vision: The Deeper Evil Behind the Detainee Bill
By Chris Floyd 02 Oct 2006 All of this is bad enough - a sickening
and cowardly surrender of liberty not seen in a major Western democracy
since the Enabling Act passed by the German Reichstag in March 1933.
But it is by no means the full extent of our degradation... For in addition
to the dictatorial powers of seizure and torment given by Congress on
Thursday to George W. Bush - powers he had already seized and exercised
for five years anyway, even without this fig leaf of sham legality -
there is a far more sinister imperial right that Bush has claimed -
and used - openly, without any demur or debate from Congress at all:
ordering the "extrajudicial killing" of anyone on earth that he and
his deputies decide - arbitrarily, without charges, court hearing, formal
evidence, or appeal - is an "enemy combatant."

Violence
in Iraq leaves at least 52 dead 04 Oct 2006 A suicide bomber
unleashed a blast in a Baghdad fish market Tuesday and two Shiite families
were found slain north of the capital as violence across Iraq claimed
at least 52 lives.

Up
to 90,000 Afghans said displaced by war 04 Oct 2006 Fighting
between NATO-led forces and insurgents across southern Afghanistan has
displaced an estimated 80,000 to 90,000 people over the past few months,
the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.

Rumsfeld
defends war on terrorism, rejects talks
03 Oct 2006 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, under fire from critics
for his handling of Iraq, on Tuesday vigorously defended the U.S. war
on [of] terrorism and ruled out
negotiation with Muslim extremists.

Hugo
Chavez Calls Rumsfeld 'Mr. Dog,' Defends Arms Deals 03 Oct 2006
President Hugo Chavez called U.S. Defense Secretary [War Criminal] Donald
H. Rumsfeld a "dog of war" on Tuesday, saying the defense chief has
no business suggesting neighboring countries are concerned about Venezuela's
arms purchases. Chavez said it's disingenuous for Rumsfeld to say he
knows of no country that is threatening Venezuela, and he insisted that
the U.S. is a threat.

5,700
US troops coming for war exercises in Luzon 04 Oct 2006 Some
5,700 American military personnel will join Filipino troops this month
in major war drills, including live-fire exercises, amphibious landings
and ship interdictions, US and Philippine military officials said yesterday.

Atta's
Father Accuses Israel and U.S. of Planning 9/11
03 Oct 2006 Muhammad a-Sayed Atta, father of Muhammad Atta, one of the
[alleged] terrorists who carried out the 9/11 fatal attacks, claims
that recently published photographs of his son were "forged by
the United States." In an interview with Saudi newspaper Al
Watan, Atta senior says, "the United States is who orchestrated
the Sept. 11 attacks and was assisted by Jewish planners. This was in
order to cover up even greater disasters that were starting to be revealed."

Rice
Offered to Resign Following Bush's 2004 Re-Selection
02 Oct 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she offered to
resign as President [sic] Bush’s National Security Adviser as part of
a broader house-cleaning following the president’s re-selection
in 2004. "I did tell the president at one point that I thought maybe
all of us should go, because we had fought two wars and we ... had [executed]
the largest terrorist attack in American history," Rice disclosed Sunday
night while en route to the Mideast.

New
Foley Instant Messages; Had Internet Sex While Awaiting House Vote
03 Oct 2006 Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer Report: Former Congressman Mark
Foley (R-FL) interrupted a vote on the floor of the House in 2003 to
engage in Internet sex with a high school student who had served as
a congressional page, according to new Internet instant messages provided
to ABC News by former pages. ABC News now has obtained 52
separate instant message exchanges, which former pages say were
sent by Foley, using the screen name Maf54, to two different boys under
the age of 18.

Ex-page
threatened over role in Foley flap 03 Oct 2006 A former male
House page from Louisiana has received threats since reports surfaced
Friday that former Rep. [GOPedophile] Mark Foley sent him inappropriate
e-mails, another congressman [Rodney Alexander (R-LA)] said Monday night.

Hastert
Fights to Save His Job in Page Scandal 04 Oct 2006 Backed by
measured words of support from President [sic] Bush, Speaker J. Dennis
Hastert opened an intense drive on Tuesday to hold on to his post, but
behind the scenes senior Republicans weighed whether he could survive
the scandal surrounding former Representative Mark Foley.

British
documentary alleges pope linked to child abuse cover-up 01 Oct
2006 A British documentary claimed that Pope Benedict XVI [Pope Rat]
was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse allegations
against Catholic priests. Before becoming head of the church, the then
cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enforced church doctrinal orthodoxy, including
a "secret Vatican decree which seemed to shelter the perpetrators and
silence the victims of abuse", the Panorama programme said.

Miami
Herald chief quits over Cuba revelations 03 Oct 2006 The publisher
of the Miami Herald resigned today, citing revelations that 'journalists'
in the group had been paid by the US 'government' [regime] to help undermine Fidel Castro's Cuban 'regime'
[government].

U.S.
paid anti-Castro journalists in Miami: paper 08 Sep 2006 At
least 10 Florida 'journalists' received regular payments from a U.S.
government program aimed at undermining the Cuban government of Fidel
Castro, The Miami Herald reported on Friday.

Dow
surges to new closing high 03 Oct 2006 The Dow Jones industrial
average finally reached new heights Tuesday, extending Wall Street’s
seven-year recovery with a record closing level after climbing into
uncharted territory in trading earlier in the day. The index of 30 blue
chip stocks ended the session at 11,727.34, according to preliminary
calculations, wiping out the previous record of 11,722.98.

Mystery
illness kills at least six in Panama
03 Oct 2006 Panama's Health Ministry declared a national epidemic alert
on Tuesday after a mystery illness killed at least six people and left
others suffering with fever, diarrhea and partial paralysis. Doctors
do not know the cause [Bush bioterror team] but say the disease progresses
rapidly to the renal system and causes neurological damage.

The
century of drought --One third of the
planet will be desert by the year 2100, say climate experts
in the most dire warning yet of the effects of global warming. 04
Oct 2006 Drought threatening the lives of millions will spread across
half the land surface of the Earth in the coming century because of
global warming, according to new predictions from Britain's leading
climate scientists.

Red
alert as climate change takes its toll on Scotland 03 Oct 2006
Scotland was put on red alert over climate change yesterday, with experts
saying it was already responsible for placing endangered species at
greater risk, for rising sea levels, major floods and landslides. And
environmental watchdog the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
warned the situation was likely to worsen. [Opinion
poll: Is Edinburgh council right to arrange for every high school
pupil to see Al Gore's global warming film?]

*****

"Citizens
for Legitimate Government, whenever they discuss the President, put
in brackets the [P], so it is the resident. So I've adopted that as
my own standard." --US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, (D-GA)
press conference 30 Sep 2006McKinney
Condemns E-Voting, Keeps Options Open US Rep. Cynthia McKinney
(D-GA) is keeping her options open, and is reviewing public records
concerning her 2006 Primary and Run-off Elections with Bev Harris of
BlackBoxVoting and others while deciding whether to legally challenge
the election, The Atlanta Progressive News has learned in an exclusive
interview with the Congresswoman.

Gingrich
urges overriding Supreme Court 29 Sep 2006 Supreme Court decisions
that are "so clearly at variance with the national will" should be overridden
by the other branches of government, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
said during a Georgetown University Law Center conference on the judiciary.

Headteacher
group tells staff to spot 'terror' pupils
02 Oct 2006 An organisation which represents Scotland's headteachers
has said that teaching staff must watch for signs that youngsters are
being brainwashed and led into terrorism. The Headteachers' Association
of Scotland (HAS) made the call for teachers to be vigilant for potential
radicalisation among young Muslim pupils. [Why aren't they taught
to spot 'terror' pResidents?]

90
terror suspects waiting 03 Oct 2006 At least 90 terror suspects
are awaiting trial in Britain, the Metropolitan Police's anti[pro]-terror
chief revealed yesterday. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke
said that a further 70 investigations are continuing. It came as he
unveiled a new 1,500-strong Met squad - known as SO15 - to fight [foment]
the threat of terrorism in Britain.

Detainees
in U.S. prison held without charge
02 Oct 2006 ...Capt. Amanullah is far from alone in his assertion of
innocence - or his inability to make that heard for so long. Like many
who have passed through the secretive jail set up after the fall of
the Taliban regime, Amanullah found himself entangled in a system where
he had no protection and no rights,
and not even the pressure of public scrutiny that helped inmates at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or Abu Ghraib, Iraq.

Frist:
Taliban Should Be in Afghan Gov't [Why not? They're already running
the US gov't.]
02 Oct 2006 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that
the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas
can never be won militarily [*duh*] and urged support for
efforts to bring "people who call themselves Taliban" and their allies
into the government. The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings
that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support
to be defeated on the battlefield.

Over
800 attacks every week in Iraq
--Woodward and Pentagon clash over war toll --Colonel says
only pullout will end insurgency 30 Sep 2006 The Bush administration
has misled the American people about the level of violence in Iraq,
where there is an attack by insurgent forces every 15 minutes, Bob Woodward,
the investigative journalist, said yesterday. "It's getting to the point
now where there are 800-900 attacks a week. That's more than a hundred
a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces," Woodward told CBS
television in an interview to be aired tomorrow night.

50
bodies of tortured Iraqis found, two U.S. Marines killed 02
Oct 2006 Iraqi police say at least 50 bodies showing signs of torture
have been found in the Baghdad area. Police say the mutilated corpses,
discovered early Monday, had bullet wounds and were most likely victims
of 'sectarian' [US] violence.

80pc
of Australians believe Iraq war has failed 03 Oct 2006 An overwhelming
eight out of 10 Australians believe the Iraq war has not reduced the
threat of global terrorism. A new poll conducted by the Lowy Institute
found two-thirds of Australians did not agree the war would lead to
the spread of democracy in the Middle East.

War
Continues On Disastrous Course By Bill Gallagher 03 Oct 2006
Iraq is lost and we are losing Afghanistan. The U.S. Army is in shambles,
and the entire military is in disarray. We are creating and nurturing
more terrorists, and our nation is despised around the globe. The president's
"war time consigliere" is a war criminal... Bush is a lying, immoral
coward who uses religion to spread hate and division. He is a vile,
irredeemable fraud, and like most of those who crave dictatorial power,
a mistake of history whose arrogance and megalomania are substitutes
for leadership and decency. America better wake up in a hurry or
we are going to find ourselves sliding deeper into a fascist state and
then wondering, "Gee, how did this happen?" And like many of the fascist
experiments in the 20th century, the dictators get their dirty deeds
done with the complicity of a cowardly legislature.

Mega
barf alert!Rumsfeld:
Venezuela build-up is concern 02 Oct 2006 The recent military
build-up in Venezuela by U.S. nemesis President Hugo Chavez has other
countries in the region worried that the weapons could end up in the
hands of terrorists, Defense Secretary [actual terrorist] Donald H.
Rumsfeld said Monday.

Chavez
says he has White House informant
--Bush administration plotting to kill him, Venezuela president claims
02 Oct 2006 Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he has received
warnings from within the White House that the Bush administration is
plotting to assassinate him or topple his government.

Intruder
caught at British PM's residence 03 Oct 2006 An intruder armed
with a knife was arrested after scaling a wall and getting into a secure
area of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's official London residence,
police said.

Rumsfeld,
Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11 02
Oct 2006 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General
John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida
strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months
before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The State Department's disclosure
Monday that the pair was briefed within a week after then-National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice was told about the threat on July 10, 2001,
raised new questions about what the Bush administration did in response,
and about why so many officials have claimed they never received or
don't remember the warning.

C.I.A.
Chief Warned Rice on Al Qaeda
03 Oct 2006 A review of White House records has determined that George
J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza
Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat
from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said Monday.

Rice:
No Memory of CIA Warning of Attack 02 Oct 2006 Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall[?!?] then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending
al-Qaida attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two
months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Rice
Disputes Report CIA Warned Her About Attack 02 Oct 2006 Secretary
of State [war criminal and lying sack of sh*t] Condoleezza Rice
Sunday vehemently denied that she ever received a CIA warning about
an imminent terrorist attack on the United States, angrily rebutting
new allegations about her culpability in U.S. policy failures before
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by al Qaeda [al CIA-duh].

GOPedophiles,
the lords of hypocrisy - Mark Foley on Bill Clinton in 1998: "It's
more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw
it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."Congress
sees through party-colored glasses By Bill Adair 12 Sep 1998
For more than a week, members of Congress said they would avoid partisan
politics when they got Kenneth Starr's report on President Clinton...
Republicans were aghast at Clinton's behavior, with many saying it showed
he had lied and abused his power. "It's vile," said Rep. Mark Foley,
R-West Palm Beach. "It's more sad than anything else, to see someone
with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual
addiction." ...Some of the strongest reaction Friday was in response
to Starr's account of [Monica] Lewinsky performing oral sex on Clinton
as he chatted with members of Congress on the telephone. That was "just
sad," Foley said. "It's unbelievable that he could behave so carelessly
in that setting."

"Maf54:
cool..dont forget to measure for me." --GOPedophile Mark
Foley on IM, asking *underage* page to measure his sexual organ for
him. Foley's
Behavior No Secret on Capitol Hill--A GOP staff member told
congressional pages to watch out for former Congressman Foley. 01
Oct 2006 It turns out Foley's obsession with 16- and 17-year-old male
pages has been known to Republicans on Capitol Hill for at least five
years. But other than issue a warning, little else seems to have been
done about the congressman. A former page has come forward to tell ABC
News warnings were issued about Foley to the pages in 2001.

FBI
Knew in July About Foley E-Mails to Teen 03 Oct 2006 The FBI
acknowledged yesterday that it did not begin an investigation in late
July after receiving copies of e-mails sent in 2005 by then-Rep. Mark
Foley (R-FL) to a Louisiana teenager -- messages that troubled the boy's
parents. Key House Republicans learned of the e-mails in 2005 and chose
to deal with Foley privately, warning him to cease contact with the
16-year-old former House page.

FBI
looking into congressman Foley 02 Oct 2006 A scandal over a
U.S. Republican congressman sending sexually explicit e-mails to underage
boys ratcheted up on Sunday with the FBI and a congressional ethics
committee looking into the accusations.

Putting
Party Before Predators: Why Didn't GOP Leaders Stop Foley?
By Cenk Uygur 01 Oct 2006 In a scandal that will likely take down the
entire House Republican leadership, everyone is wondering why Rep. Mark
Foley, Chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus
was allowed to carry on his predatory behavior with a teenage boy a
year after his relationship was revealed to party leaders. Watch
a video
of Rep. Foley giving an interview on child predators, in which he
states "If I were one of these sickos, I’d be nervous with America’s
Most Wanted on my trail."["In
a scandal that will likely take down the entire House Republican leadership..."
No, they'll just order another random shooting (of mass distraction)
in another rural community. --LRP]

Ex-Rep.
Foley Checks Into Alcohol Rehab 02 Oct 2006 Former Rep. Mark
Foley, under FBI investigation for e-mail exchanges with teenage congressional
pages, has checked himself into rehabilitation facility for alcoholism
treatment and accepts responsibility for his actions, his attorney said
Monday. [Where does he "check into" for pedophilia?]

Republican
cover-up charge over sex e-mails to boy, 16 02 Oct 2006 Republican
Party leaders in the United States faced calls for an inquiry yesterday
amid accusations they turned a blind eye to a Florida congressman [GOPedophile]
who sent sexually explicit e-mails to a 16-year-old boy.

Resign,
Mr. Speaker (The Washington Times) 03 Oct 2006 The facts of
the disgrace of Mark Foley, who was a Republican member of the House
from a Florida district until he resigned last week, constitute a disgrace
for every Republican member of Congress. Red flags emerged in late 2005,
perhaps even earlier, in suggestive and wholly inappropriate e-mail
messages to underage congressional pages. His aberrant, predatory
-- and possibly criminal -- behavior was an open secret among the pages
who were his prey. The evidence was strong enough long enough ago
that the speaker should have relieved Mr. Foley of his committee responsibilities
contingent on a full investigation to learn what had taken place, whether
any laws had been violated and what action, up to and including prosecution,
were warranted by the facts. This never happened... House Speaker Dennis
Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at
once.

Judge
May Have Stymied Abramoff Probe 29 Sep 2006 The bribery investigation
involving influence-peddler Jack Abramoff may have been stymied by a
federal judge in Florida just as prosecutors
began asking questions about the lobbyist's ties to the White House.
A congressional report released Friday showed that Abramoff had hundreds
of contacts with White House officials over three years, including 10
with top Bush aide Karl Rove.

Foley,
GOPedophiles rejoice: House
Approves Strip Search Bill20
Sep 2006 A bill approved by the U.S. House yesterday would require school
districts around the country to establish policies making it easier
for teachers and school officials to conduct wide scale searches of
students. These searches could take the form of pat-downs, bag searches,
or strip searches depending on how
administrators interpret the law. The Student
Teacher Safety Act of 2006 (HR
5295) would require any school receiving federal funding--essentially
every public school--to adopt policies allowing teachers and school
officials to conduct random, warrantless searches of every student,
at any time, on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Lieberman
says he has been promised seniority 03 Oct 2006 Sen. Joe LieberBush,
the longtime 'Democratic' senator from Connecticut running for re-election
as an independent, says the party leadership has assured him he would
keep his seniority if he returns to Congress. Local Democrats are responding
with irritation, political opponents voice disbelief, and Senate Minority
Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) denies making a decision.

Pastors
Guiding Voters to GOP 01 Oct 2006 With a pivotal election five
weeks away, leaders on the religious right have launched an all-out
drive to get Christians from pew to voting booth. Their target: the
nearly 30 million Americans who attend church at least once a week but
did not vote in 2004. Their efforts at times push legal limits on church
involvement in partisan campaigns. That is by design. With control of
Congress at stake Nov. 7, those guiding the movement say they owe it
to God and to their own moral principles [sic] to do everything
they can to keep social conservatives in power.

AP,
Networks Sue Over Fla. Exit Poll Law 30 Sep 2006 A Florida law
that bars exit polling near voting places violates the press' rights
under the First Amendment, a lawsuit filed by The Associated Press and
five television networks alleges. [The Reichwing can't afford to
be embarrassed when the exit polling reveals that *nobody* voted for
GOPedophiles, but miraculously --the electronic 'votng' tally shows
an opposite outcome.]

1,000ft
high tornado hits Brighton coast 02 Oct 2006 Racing across the
sea at breakneck speed, this is a 1,000ft-high tornado heading straight
for Brighton. The twister loomed over the city's burnt-out pier as it
churned up seawaters into a massive whirlpool yesterday.

*****

Reid
fights to end torture shield for terror suspects 01 Oct 2006
John Reid, the home secretary, is heading for a showdown with the judiciary
over plans to strip some terror suspects of the automatic right to be
protected from torture. Reid is preparing a new anti-terror law that
would sideline human rights legislation protecting suspects from torture
if ministers ruled there were "overriding considerations of national
security". The move is aimed at foreign terrorist suspects, including
32 detained in prison without charge or being monitored on strict
bail conditions.

New
US trials are worse: Hicks lawyer 02 Oct 2006 Sleep deprivation
does not fit the definition of torture and is an acceptable method of
interrogating terrorism suspects, according to the Attorney-General,
Philip Ruddock.

Australian
at Guantanamo to be among first tried by U-S military tribunals
01 Oct 2006 The only Australian held at the Guantanamo Bay prison in
Cuba will be among the first terror suspects tried by the overhauled
U-S military commissions. Australia's attorney general tells Australian
Broadcasting that the tribunals could take months to begin. But he says
he has pressed his U-S counterpart, [terrorist] Alberto Gonzalez, to
deal with the matter quickly.

Inmates
detail U.S. prison near Kabul 01 Oct 2006 Capt. Amanullah, a
former mujahedeen commander, smooths his black beard with his palm and
gives a deep and ironic laugh as he recounts his 14 miserable months
in Bagram, the U.S. prison for terror suspects in Afghanistan.

Report
says CIA rendition flight was likely 30 Sep 2006 A leaked interim
report by Swiss federal prosecutors has allegedly indicated that the
CIA used Swiss air space to fly a Muslim cleric to Egypt for interrogation.

British
troops in secret truce with the Taliban 01 Oct 2006 British
troops battling the Taliban are to withdraw from one of the most dangerous
areas of Afghanistan after agreeing a secret deal with the local people.
Over the past two months British soldiers have come under sustained
attack defending a remote mud-walled government outpost in the town
of Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan. It has now been agreed the troops
will quietly pull out of Musa Qala in return for the Taliban doing the
same.

Twelve
dead in Afghan suicide blast 30 Sep 2006 At least 12 people
have been killed and 42 injured after a suicide bomber blew himself
up in front of the Interior Ministry in Kabul.

Baghdad
under total daylight curfew 30 Sep 2006 Iraq imposed a total
daylight curfew on Baghdad on Saturday, banning
all movement, as U.S. forces said they had foiled a possible
suicide plot to attack the city's sprawling "Green Zone" government
compound. [Gee, it sure looks like life under Saddam Hussein was
a *better deal.*]

Saudis
build 550-mile fence to shut out Iraq 01 Oct 2006 Security in
Iraq has collapsed so dramatically that Saudi Arabia has ordered the
construction of a 550-mile high-tech fence to seal off its troubled
northern neighbour. The huge project to build the barrier, which will
be equipped with ultraviolet night-vision cameras, buried sensor cables
and thousands of miles of barbed wire, will snake across the vast and
remote desert frontier between the countries.

Gunmen
kidnap 26 workers in Baghdad 01 Oct 2006 Gunmen kidnapped 26
workers from a refrigerated food factory Sunday in what appeared to
be a new 'sectarian' [US] attack, a security official said.

Wars
get $70 billion down payment in defense bill 30 Sep 2006 Congress
on Friday authorized an additional $70 billion in emergency funds to
pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through early next year. The
$70 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan is a down payment on war costs
the White House has estimated will hit $110
billion for the budget year beginning Oct. 1.

Cost
of Bush's war? Just keep adding zeroes 01 Oct 2006 It was only
four years ago when Lawrence Lindsey, then-head of the White House's
National Economic Council, estimated that the "upper bound" of the cost
of going to war with Iraq would be between $100-billion and $200-billion...
Well, we've kissed the $200-billion limit goodbye long ago. We're currently
out of pocket more than $400-billion and adding to the bill at the rate
of $8-billion per month... So what's the current upper-range estimate?
Trillions.

Congress
okays funding increase for joint Israel-US defense programs
01 Oct 2006 The US Congress approved an increase of $460
million in funding for joint Israeli-American defense programs
over the weekend, including $20 million for the development of a short-range
ballistic missile defense system which will provide protection from
Katyusha rockets.

US
may accept Iranian nuclear bomb 01 Oct 2006 America is going
to have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran, US intelligence analysts
have concluded at a secret meeting near Washington.

Halliburton
and Iran: One Pea, Two Pods By Andy Grotto 31
Mar 2005 In January, Halliburton Products & Services Limited
and Oriental Kish finalized
a contract to develop two sectors of the South Pars oil and gas
field in Iran. A primary shareholder of Oriental Kish is none other
than Sirous Nasseri, head of the Iranian delegation to the IAEA negotiating
the future of Iran’s nuclear programs. Nasseri is also rumored to have
been a close advisor and consultant to Halliburton.

"Mr.
Vice President, I would call for your resignation as well, were you
not a constitutional officer." Biden
Wanted Cheney Out Too--Said
On CBS Program 'Not One Piece of Advice' On Iraq Was Right
01 Oct 2006 On CBS News's Face the Nation Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) the
ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said he thinks
Rumsfeld should lose his job because of what he sees as mismanagement
of the war. Biden also said that, in an Oval Office meeting, he told
President [sic] Bush and Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney that he wanted
Cheney to step down for the same reasons. "The present said to me, quote,
'Why do you keep picking on Rummy?' I looked at the president, and I
said, 'Mr. President, with all due respect' – and I looked at the vice
president – 'Mr. Vice President, I would call for your resignation as
well, were you not a constitutional officer,'" Biden told host Bob Scheiffer.

Woodward's
book damns Bush team 02 Oct 2006 The White House is bracing
for a week of damage control in the wake of the publication of a new
book by the Watergate journalist Bob Woodward in which the Bush Administration
is described as dysfunctional and faction-ridden, and President [sic]
George Bush as "intellectually incurious".

The
paranoid whackjob didn't even trust his poodle:US
kept spying data from Blair --White House plot to get rid of
Rumsfeld claimed 01 Oct 2006 Tony Blair was angered by America’s refusal
to share intelligence on Iraq with Britain, according to a revealing
new book by Bob Woodward, the veteran journalist who exposed the Watergate
scandal. The prime minister protested to President [sic] George W Bush
about the way intelligence was routinely marked NOFORN (no foreigners),
denying access to the US’s closest ally.

Powell
'warned Bush of Iraq quagmire' 02 Oct 2006 Former US secretary
of state Colin Powell warned President [sic] George W. Bush he was facing
a difficult insurgency in Iraq in their final meeting in January last
year, a new biography of Mr Powell claims.

Book
asserts Rice saw no urgency in summer 2001 al-Qaeda threat 30
Sep 2006 The
latest book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, "State of Denial,"
paints a portrait of an administration driven by personal and policy
disagreements exacerbated by a deteriorating situation in Iraq that
has grown even worse than Bush admits to the public... The book also
reports that then-CIA Director George J. Tenet and his counterterrorism
chief, J. Cofer Black, grew so concerned in
the summer of 2001 about a possible al-Qaeda attack that they drove
straight to the White House to get high-level attention.
Tenet called Rice, then the national security adviser, from his car
to ask to see her, in hopes that the surprise appearance would make
an impression. But the meeting on July 10, 2001, left Tenet and Black
frustrated and feeling brushed off, Woodward reported. Rice, they thought,
did not seem to feel the same sense of urgency about the threat and
was content to wait for an ongoing policy review. The July 10 meeting
of Rice, Tenet and Black went unmentioned in various investigations
into the Sept. 11 attacks...

The
laughing 9/11 bombers 01 Oct 2006 Film of the ringleader of
the September 11 hijackers reading his "martyrdom" will inside
Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden’s headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage. [*LOL!* Five
years later?!? Al-CIAduh needs to hire quicker editors!]

"The
whole attack was planned by Pakistan's ISI."Pakistan
spy agency behind Mumbai bombs-police 30 Sep 2006 Indian police
said on Saturday they had found evidence that Pakistan-based Islamist
militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the July 11 bombings in Mumbai
and Pakistan's military spy agency was behind the plot.

Humiliation
at 33,000 feet: Top British architect tells of terror 'arrest'
01 Oct 2006 In Seth Stein's case, he was pounced on as the crew and
other travellers looked on. As he settled down with a book and a ginger
ale, the father-of-three was grabbed from behind and held in a head-lock.
"This guy just told me his name was Michael Wilk, that he was with the
New York Police Department, that I'd been acting suspiciously and should
stay calm. I could barely find my voice and couldn't believe it was
happening," said Mr Stein.

U.S.,
EU Fail on Air Passenger Data Deal 30 Sep 2006 The United States
and the European Union failed to reach a new deal on sharing air passenger
data by Saturday's deadline, though officials said negotiations would
continue.

Why
I'm Banned in the USA By Tariq Ramadan 01 Oct 2006 For more
than two years now, the U.S. government has barred me from entering
the United States to pursue an academic career. The reasons have changed
over time, and have evolved from defamatory to absurd, but the effect
has remained the same: I've been kept out... My experience reveals how
U.S. authorities seek to suppress dissenting voices and -- by excluding
people such as me from their country -- manipulate political debate
in America. Unfortunately, the U.S. government's paranoia has evolved
far beyond a fear of particular individuals and taken on a much more
insidious form: the fear of ideas.

Agencies
consider whether Foley should face charges 01 Oct 2006 A spokesman
for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed late Saturday
the agency is deciding whether to press charges against former U.S.
Rep. [GOPedophile] Mark Foley, who
hastily resigned from office Friday. "We will be discussing this
matter with the FBI in an effort to determine if there are grounds for
a criminal investigation and if so, who has jurisdiction," said
Tom Berlinger, chief media spokesman for the FDLE. Berlinger said the
decision would be made this week.

Former
page: We knew about Foley 'for years' 01 Oct 2006 Sexually explicit
messages from former Rep. Mark Foley to one former congressional page
might be just the tip of the iceberg,
the leader of an alumni association for former congressional pages told
Scripps Howard News Service on Saturday. While Foley resigned this week
after published reports of "friendly" e-mails to one 16-year-old male
page and the pending broadcast of more sexually explicit instant messages,
similar graphic messages from him were received by at least three other
teenage boys who once worked in the page program, said Matthew Loraditch,
a Maryland college senior who runs the U.S. House Page Alumni Association's
Internet message board. "I've known about them (messages) for several
years now," he said Saturday.

Democrats
Assail G.O.P. for Silence on Foley 01 Oct 2006 Democrats expressed
outrage today that Republican leaders had waited nearly a year to tell
them about e-mails between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage
page, allowing the Florida GOPedophile during that time to remain
head of the Congressional caucus on children’s issues.

GOP
Leader Rebuts Hastert on Foley --Reynolds: Speaker Knew of
E-Mails in Spring 01 Oct 2006 House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL)
was notified early this year of inappropriate e-mails from former representative
[GOPedophile] Mark Foley (R-FL) to a 16-year-old page, a top GOP House
member said yesterday -- contradicting the speaker's assertions that
he learned of concerns about Foley only last week. Hastert did not
dispute the claims of Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-NY), and his office
confirmed that some of Hastert's top aides knew last year that Foley
had been ordered to cease contact with the boy and to treat all pages
respectfully.

US
speaker's staff knew about Foley matter in 2005 30 Sep 2006
The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives said his
office knew a year ago about inappropriate contact between a former
intern and newly resigned Rep. [GOPedophile] Mark Foley and called on
Saturday for a criminal probe of the matter. Foley, 52, a six-term Florida
Republican, resigned from the House on Friday after ABC News reported
he sent messages to current and former congressional pages with references
to sexual organs and acts.

GOP
leaders knew of Foley e-mail in '05 30 Sep 2006 Rep. Thomas
Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said Saturday
he told Speaker Dennis Hastert months ago about concerns that a fellow
GOP lawmaker had sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy. Hastert's
office said aides referred the matter to the proper authorities last
fall but they were only told the messages were "over-friendly ['Over-friendly?'
Uh, *illegal.*]

Judge
rejects feds' request to delay Abramoff prison sentence 30 Sep
2006 The bribery investigation involving influence-peddler Jack Abramoff
may have been stymied by a federal judge in Florida just as prosecutors
began asking questions about the lobbyist's ties to the White House.
U.S. District Judge Paul Huck refused to delay Abramoff's prison sentence
for fraud charges Thursday, rejecting a plea by the Justice Department's
top corruption prosecutor, who said Abramoff was providing information
about officials whose names hadn't yet surfaced in the case. In
the past month, the FBI has been pursuing leads about Abramoff's access
to the White House and whether he was able to help lawmakers get Bush
administration backing for their bills, according to someone
familiar with the direction of the investigation who spoke on condition
of anonymity because of its secrecy.

Voters
vanish in U.S.
By Michael Harris 29 Sep 2006 The election of the president of the United
States is increasingly founded on a system of vote-counting that can't
be verified... How could the world's greatest democracy come up with
an electoral process that defies an audit? ...In four key battleground
states in the November mid-term elections -- Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania
and Michigan -- the Republicans have been busily redrawing electoral
districts.

Schools
punishing kids for what they say online --Critics say policies
that extend to posts from home computers are unconstitutional 01
Oct 2006 A growing number of school officials in the Indianapolis area
are trying to punish students for Internet commentary they deem inappropriate
-- including postings on home computers -- drawing outrage from teens
and free-speech advocates.

Under
the Bush dictatorship, *every* child is left behind:"They're
forcing schools to spend millions on ineffective programs." The
Education IssueBy Michael Grunwald 01 Oct 2006 Five years [after
the No Child Left Behind Act was passed], an accumulating mound of evidence
from reports, interviews and program documents suggests that Reading
First has had little to do with science or rigor. Instead, the billions
have gone to what is effectively a pilot project for untested programs
with friends in high places. Department officials and a small group
of influential contractors have strong-armed states and local districts
into adopting a small group of unproved textbooks and reading programs
with almost no peer-reviewed research behind them.

US
warns charities on any links to terror groups 29 Sep 2006 The
U.S. Treasury Department warned charities on Friday to be sure they
are not even indirectly funding activities that build support for
terrorist organizations. In an annex to the guidelines, the department
for the first time cautioned that charitable
activities could build public support for terrorist groups, even if
they don't channel funds to terrorist organizations. "Terrorist
abuse also includes the exploitation of charitable services and activities
to radicalize vulnerable populations and cultivate support for terrorist
organizations and activities," the Treasury said.

Congress
Sends Bush Terror Tribunal Bill 29 Sep 2006 Congress sent President
[sic] Bush a bill Friday that endorses his plan to interrogate and prosecute
terror suspects, legislation Republicans hope will win them political
points on the campaign trail. Once Bush signs it, which he was expected
to do very soon, the military can begin prosecuting terror suspects.

U.N.
Official Decries Anti-Terror Bill 29 Sep 2006 The top U.N. official
on torture said Friday that a bill before the U.S. Congress could deprive
terrorism suspects of a fair trial and was especially troubling after
the mistreatment of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

Bush
faces wave of challenges to terror law 30 Sep 2006 The Bush
regime yesterday faced a raft of legal challenges to a sweeping new
regime for Guantánamo that would deny court oversight to detainees
in the war on terror, and would bar prosecution of US personnel for
war crimes.

Attorneys
For Guantanamo Detainees Could Be Detained As Enemy Combatants Under
New Legislation --President Given Undue Power to Silence Critics
26 Sep 2006 On September 26, 2006, attorneys for the Center for Constitutional
Rights (CCR) determined that what appears to be the final version of
the Military Commissions Act of 2006 could allow the government to detain
the attorneys themselves as 'enemy combatants.' CCR Legal Director Bill
Goodman said: "This ominously broad definition of enemy combatants
would mean that almost anyone who actively opposes the President or
the government could be locked up indefinitely. This bill makes a mockery
of the rule of law."

Vote
Summary 28 Sep 2006 On Passage of the Bill (S. 3930 As Amended)
Measure Number: S.
3930 Measure Title: A bill to authorize
trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for
other purposes. Vote Result: Bill Passed. [Did you ever
thought you'd live to see the day when Congress would vote on 'acceptable
levels' of torture, rape and biological experiments? [Arming
the Left: Is the time now? --by Charles Southwell 21 Oct 2003]

"This
unprecedented and expansive suspension of habeas corpus is utterly unconstitutional,
and we will challenge it." Legal
Battle Over Detainee Bill Is Likely--The
Senate approves Bush's plan for military tribunals. Limits on terror
suspects' options for appeal could lead to a Supreme Court ruling. 29
Sep 2006 The Senate on Thursday approved President Bush's plan to question
and try foreign terrorism suspects before military judges — without
oversight by the federal courts. Bush is expected to receive a bill
he can sign into law in the next few days, but legal challenges almost
assuredly will be pursued against the prosecution process, which the
administration considers a key element in its war on [of] terrorism.

Canadian
torture victim gets apology 29 Sep 2006 Canada's police commissioner
has apologised to a Canadian man deported by US authorities to Syria
and tortured based on bad Canadian intelligence, but said the US shared
blame... Giuliano Zaccardelli, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, said on Thursday that US authorities
were advised of the mistake while Arar was still in US custody in New
York. "When Mr Arar was in New York City, we clearly communicated
with the Americans that there was false information there and we tried
to correct that false information," he testified. "I have no information,
no indication as to why the Americans took the decision ... to detain
him and send him to Syria," Zaccardelli said. "We have attempted to
get that information. We have not gotten that," despite closer US-Canada
security ties since 2002, he later said.

Amnesty
slams abuse of terror suspects in Pakistan 29 Sep 2006 Rights
group Amnesty International condemned Pakistan over abuse of terror
suspects, claiming hundreds had been "disappeared," while many were
tortured before being sold on to US authorities. In a report the London-based
group said bounty hunters routinely help arrest suspects, who are then
sold on abroad including to the United States' infamous prison camp
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

House
passes warrantless domestic spying measure
28 Sep 2006 The House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that
would provide congressional authorization for Dictator George W. Bush's
warrantless domestic spying program but subject it to new rules [?].
The president would be permitted to order warrantless surveillance,
for example, after an "armed attack," "terrorist attack" or when the
president deems there is an "imminent threat." Rep. John Conyers, a
Michigan Democrat, charged: "Hidden in the fine print are provisions
which grant the administration authority to maintain permanent records
on innocent U.S. citizens, granting the administration new authority
to demand personal records without court review, and terminating any
and all legal challenges to unlawful wiretapping."

Card
Urged Bush to Replace Rumsfeld, Woodward Says 29 Sep 2006 Former
White House chief of staff Andrew Card on two occasions tried and failed
to persuade President [sic] Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
according to a new book by Bob Woodward that depicts senior officials
of the Bush administration as unable to face the consequences of their
policy in Iraq.

Chickens
are home to roost in Iraq--The Bush administration is running
out of troops, money and ideas, warns Andrew Bacevich 27 Sep 2006 As
if by stealth, almost without our noticing, the Iraq war's long-awaited
turning point has arrived. After the innumerable events touted as decisive
that turned out to be anything but that ... the end game now becomes
clear. And the outcome points ineluctably towards an American failure
of immense proportions. Historians of the global war on terror will
likely recall September 2006 as a pivotal moment. Throughout this month,
chickens have come home to roost.

Lott:
Bush barely mentioned Iraq in meeting with Senate Republicans
By Ted Barrett 28 Sep 2006 President [sic] Bush barely mentioned the
war in Iraq when he met with Republican senators behind closed doors
in the Capitol Thursday morning and was not asked about the course of
the war, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, said. "No, none of that," Lott
told reporters after the session when asked if the Iraq war was discussed.
"You're the only ones who obsess on that. We
don't and the real people out in the real world don't for the most part."
[Did an IED land on his head?]

Bush:
Dems Have Become Obstructionists
28 Sep 2006 President [sic] Bush counterpunched at Democrats on Thursday,
saying their criticism of the war in Iraq has turned their party into
one of "cut-and-run" obstructionists. At a GOP fundraiser, Bush accused
Democrats of using a new intelligence estimate that ties the war in
Iraq to rising extremism to win votes in November.

*Speaking*
of terrorist propaganda:Deal
to monitor media, produce propaganda --The two-year contract
goes to the PR firm that paid Iraqi papers for flattering stories.
28 Sep
2006 A public relations company that participated in a U.S. military
program that paid Iraqi newspapers for stories favorable to occupation
forces has been awarded another multimillion-dollar media contract.
Washington-based Lincoln Group won a two-year contract to monitor a
number of English and Arabic media outlets and produce 'public relations-type
products such as talking points or speeches' [propaganda] for
U.S. forces in Iraq, officials said Tuesday.

Bush's
full-blown dictatorship in Iraq: Total
curfew declared in Baghdad
29 Sep 2006 The Iraqi government has declared an immediate curfew in
the capital, Baghdad, to run until Sunday morning. The move affects
both vehicles and pedestrians, a spokesman for the Iraqi prime minister
said.

Attack
on Baghdad mosque kills 10 27 Sep 2006 At least 10 people have
been killed in the Iraqi capital at a shoot-out near a Sunni mosque,
police say. The incident happened at the al-Mashahada mosque in the
Hurriya district, when [US] gunmen opened fire on worshippers attending
evening prayers. Eleven people were wounded in the attack, police said.

Two
More Fort Hood Soldiers Die In Iraq 29 Sep 2006 (TX) Fort Hood
Staff Sgt. Edward C. Reynolds, Jr., 27, of Groves and Pfc. Henry Paul,
24, of Kolonia Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia died Tuesday
in Iraq, the military said Friday.

Hi-tech
firm boycotts Israel over 'war crimes' --Belgian hi-tech company
specializing in development consulting notifies manager of Israeli company
seeking cooperation that 'your
country has conducted war crimes and is an apartheid regime'
27 Sep 2006 Following the recent war in Lebanon, Ynet has received several
complaints from Israeli companies that have encountered refusal of companies
from various countries to cooperate with Israelis because of the war.

Ports
security bill passes in the House 29 Sep 2006 The House approved
a major ports security bill early Saturday. The bill approves $400 million
a year over five years for risk-based grants for training and exercises
at ports.

Reichwing
terrorism running rampant:Judge
received death threats after ruling on intelligent design 27
Sep 2006 A judge who struck down a Dover, Penn., school board's decision
to teach intelligent design in public schools said he was stunned by
the reaction, which included death threats and a week of protection
from federal marshals.

"Johnson
stated that a young man from the Air Force asked for the burning, and
the church agreed."Youth
group holds vice [book] burning 29 Sep 2006 (Minot, SD) A [Hitler]
youth group at First Assembly of God church held a burning Wednesday
night by burning anything they wanted to get out of their lives that
they feel is hindering their relationship with the Lord. Some of the
items burned included CDs, DVDs, magazines, books and anything else
they could think of. But unlike the negative connotations burnings are
generally associated with, this burning was intended to be a positive
event for everyone involved [!?!].
[LOL! The Reichwing 'reporter' (Dan Feldner) tries to put a 'positive
spin' on the event by failing to report the titles of the books, CDs
and magazines which would undoubtedly invoke criticism of the 1984-style
book-burning. --LRP]

Abramoff
Put White House Contacts at 400 29 Sep 2006 Disgraced lobbyist
Jack Abramoff and his colleagues billed their clients for more than
400 contacts with White House officials
between 2001 and 2004, according to a report released yesterday by the
House Government Reform Committee. The report did not determine how
many of those contacts -- referenced in e-mails and Abramoff's often
falsified client bills -- actually occurred.

"A
disgraced lobbyist traded perks and campaign contributions for special
access to the Bush White House."Report
Says Rove Aide Accepted Abramoff Gifts 30 Sep 2006 A top aide
to presidential adviser Karl Rove passed along inside White House information
to corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff at a time when she was also accepting
his tickets to nine sports and entertainment events, according to e-mails
released yesterday in a bipartisan congressional report.

Another
GOPedophile bites the dust!Foley
to Resign Over Sexually Explicit Messages to Minors 29 Sep 2006
Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer Report: Saying he was "deeply sorry," Congressman
Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned from
Congress today, hours after ABC News questioned him about sexually explicit
internet messages with current and former congressional pages under
the age of 18.

GOPedophiles
Boehner, Hastert knew of Foley's actions in the spring - did nothing
--Rep. Foley Sent Explicit Online Notes to Boy, 16 30 Sep 2006 Six-term
Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned
yesterday amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit e-mails to
at least one underage male former page. Foley, who was considered likely
to win reelection this fall, resigned. The resignation rocked the Capitol,
and especially Foley's GOP colleagues, as lawmakers were rushing to
adjourn for at least six weeks. House Majority
Leader John Boehner (R-OH) told The Washington Post last night that
he had learned this spring of some "contact" between Foley and a 16-year-old
page. Boehner said he told House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert
(R-IL), and that Hastert assured him "we're taking care of it."

Poll
shows Virginia Senate race is dead heat 30 Sep 2006 Incumbent
Republican Senator [racist maggot] George Allen and Democratic challenger
Jim Webb are tied in the latest MSNBC/McClatchy poll conducted by Mason-Dixon.
Each candidate received the support of 43 percent of likely voters in
Virginia with 2 percent supporting a third candidate and 12 percent
undecided.

Police:
2 priests stole millions from Fla. parish
--Monsignor held on charges he stole $8.6 million; reverend still on
the lam 28 Sep 2006 Two Roman Catholic priests stole millions in offerings
and gifts made to their parish over several years, authorities said
Thursday.

Exelon
Found Elevated Levels of Cancer-Causing Chemical At Southwest Suburban
Facility 29 Sep 2006 A new study by ComEd parent company Exelon
says except for the Braidwood plant, there are no new radioactive tritium
leaks in any of its nuclear power plants. At the Braidwood facility,
slightly elevated levels of the cancer-causing chemical had already
been discovered in two nearby drinking wells. [?!? Are we supposed
to be *thankful* that there's only *one* tritium leak?]

Breast
cancer cases rise 80% since Seventies 29 Sep 2006 A total of
36,939 women were diagnosed in England in 2004, an 81 per cent increase
in incidence of breast cancer since 1971, after statistical adjustment
for the ageing of the population.

*****

Senate
passes bill on terror detainee trials --Bush backs legislation,
had gone to Congress to lobby for it 28 Sep 2006 The Senate on Thursday
endorsed Dictator Bush's plans to prosecute and interrogate [torture]
terror suspects... The measure also provides extensive [circumlocutious]
definitions of war crimes such as torture, rape and biological experiments,
but gives the president broad authority to decide which other techniques
U.S. interrogators may use legally.

Senate
Nears Final Vote on Detainee Bill
28 Sep 2006 The Senate today rejected an amendment to a bill creating
a new system for interrogating and trying terror suspects that would
have guaranteed such suspects access to the courts to challenge their
imprisonment. The bill's ultimate passage was assured on Wednesday
when [spineless, useless] Democrats agreed to forgo a filibuster in
return for consideration of the amendment.

Republicans
Reject 'Habeas Corpus' Amendment by Specter 28 Sep 2006 The
Senate, siding with Dictator Bush shortly after he personally lobbied
lawmakers at the Capitol, rejected a move Thursday by a leading Republican
to allow terrorism suspects to challenge their imprisonment in court.
The Senate voted
48-51 against an amendment by Sen. Arlen Specter that would have
allowed terror suspects to file "habeas corpus" petitions in court.
"This is a constitutional requirement and it is fundamental that
Congress not legislate contradiction to a constitutional interpretation
of the Supreme Court," said Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Judiciary
Committee.

"This is un-American, this is unconstitutional, this is contrary
to American interests, this is not what a great and good and powerful
nation should be doing." --Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT)House
Passes Detainee Bill as It Clears Senate Hurdle
28 Sep 2006 Congress took major steps on Wednesday toward establishing
a new system for interrogating [torturing] and trying terror suspects
as the House approved legislation sought by President [sic] Bush and
the Senate defeated efforts to alter the measure. The House voted 253
to 168 in favor of extensive new rules governing the questioning of
terror suspects and bringing them before military tribunals.

Rushing
Off a Cliff(The
New York Times) 28 Sep 2006 Republicans say Congress must act right
now to create procedures for charging and trying terrorists — because
the men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks are available for trial.
That's pure propaganda. Those men could have been tried and convicted
long ago, but President [sic] Bush chose not to. He held them in illegal
detention, had them questioned in ways that will make real trials very
hard, and invented a transparently illegal system of kangaroo courts
to convict them. It was only after the Supreme Court issued the inevitable
ruling striking down Mr. Bush's shadow penal system that he adopted
his tone of urgency... The
Republicans have made it clear that they’ll use any opportunity to brand
anyone who votes against this bill as a terrorist enabler. But Americans
of the future won’t remember the pragmatic arguments for caving in to
the administration. They'll know that in 2006, Congress passed a tyrannical
law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our
generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

The
White House Warden
--Congress may give the president the power to lock up almost anyone
he thinks is a terror threat. By Bruce Ackerman 28 Sep 2006 Buried
in the complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker,
reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects
in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is
racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American
citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United
States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial
by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of
Rights.

Intelligence
report cites "leftist" groups as a terror threat
Summary of Glenn Greenwald post 27 Sep 2006 The now-declassified summary
of the National Intelligence Estimate on "Trends on Global Terrorism"
[includes this passage:] "Anti-U.S. and anti-globalization sentiment
is on the rise and fueling other radical ideologies. This could prompt
some leftist, nationalist, or separatist groups to adopt terrorist methods
to attack US interests. The radicalization process is occurring more
quickly, more widely, and more anonymously in the Internet age, raising
the likelihood of surprise attacks by unknown groups whose members and
supporters may be difficult to pinpoint." That this claim about "leftist"
terrorist groups made it into the NIE summary is particularly significant
in light of the torture and detention bill that is likely soon to be
enacted into law. That bill defines
"enemy combatant" very broadly (and the definition may be even broader
by the time it is enacted) and could easily encompass
domestic groups perceived by the administration to be supporting a "terrorist
agenda."

Think
tank wants group to be placed on terror list 29 Sep 2006 The
United States should proscribe a small group of Islamic converts in
the Philippines [Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM)] who are slowly emerging
as a leading regional terrorist organization, a security expert warned
yesterday.

Manila
wants to blacklist Islamic convert group 28 Sep 2006 The Philippines
said on Thursday it would ask the United States to place a small group
of Islamic converts on a list of international terrorist organisations
to stop it getting overseas funding. Ricardo Blancaflor, director of
Manila's anti-terrorism task force, said the Rajah Solaiman Islamic
Movement had become one of the most dangerous Muslim militant organisations
in the country and was capable of planting bombs in the capital.

Iraq
war 'has radicalised Muslims' 28 Sep 2006 The war in Iraq has
radicalised Muslims and acted as a "recruiting sergeant" for extremists,
according to a leaked MoD document. The report by the Defence Academy
- an MoD thinktank - "paints a stark picture of failure" on the war
on terror, according to BBC's Newsnight programme which has obtained
the report.

House
Dems Want to Probe Findings of Leaked Intelligence Report
26 Sep 2006 House Democratic leaders sent a letter to House Speaker
Dennis Hastert on Monday, asking him to hold hearings on an intelligence
report [April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate] that was leaked to
the New York Times -- apparently to undermine President [sic] Bush's
claim that the war in Iraq has made Americans safer.

Bob
Woodward: Bush Misleads On Iraq --Tells 60 Minutes' Mike
Wallace Kissinger Is Regular Visitor to White House 28 Sep 2006
Veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward tells Mike Wallace that the
Bush administration has not told the truth regarding the level of violence,
especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq. He also reveals key intelligence
that predicts the insurgency will grow worse next year. According to
Woodward, insurgent attacks against occupation
troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact
the administration has kept secret.

40
men found tortured, shot dead in Iraq 28 Sep 2006 The bodies
of 40 men who been tortured were found in the capital in a span of 24
hours, police said Thursday. Bombings and shootings killed at least
21 people in and around Baghdad, including five people who died from
a car-bomb explosion near a restaurant.

Heralded
Iraq Police Academy a 'Disaster' --Academy
part of a $21 billion reconstruction effort marred by corruption, fraud
28 Sep 2006 A $75 million project to build the largest police academy
in Iraq has been so grossly mismanaged that the campus now poses health
risks to recruits and might need to be partially demolished, U.S. investigators
have found. "This is the most essential civil security project in the
country -- and it's a failure," said Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the
special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an independent office
created by Congress. "The Baghdad police academy is a disaster."
['Failure...' 'Disaster...' all pointing to the biggest failure and
disaster in US history, George W. Bush. --LRP]

Poll:
Iraqis back attacks on U.S. troops 27 Sep 2006 About six in
10 Iraqis say they approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces, and slightly
more than that want their government to ask U.S. troops to leave within
a year, a poll finds.

House
Passes Ban on Permanent Iraq Bases 27 Sep 2006 Congress is on
the verge of barring the construction of permanent bases for U.S. forces
in Iraq, a move aimed at quelling concerns in the Arab world that American
forces will remain in the war-torn country indefinitely.

German
lawmakers extend Afghanistan mission 28 Sep 2006 German lawmakers
on Thursday agreed to keep German troops in Afghanistan for another
year as part of a NATO peace-keeping mission despite concerns the Bundeswehr
could be stretched by its overseas commitments.

Israel
Releases High-Ranking Hamas Official 27 Sep 2006 An Israeli
military court today released the Palestinian deputy prime minister,
Nasser al-Shaer, one of more than 30 Hamas lawmakers and cabinet ministers
who have been detained by the Israelis over the past three months.

North
Korea rejects talks, blames U.S. 26 Sep 2006 North Korea on
Tuesday rejected further talks on its nuclear program and blamed the
breakdown in negotiations directly on the United States, claiming Washington
wants to rule the world.

"Blair
is not Hitler. But he is building the tools of totalitarianism."Outrage
over ads depicting Blair as Hitler 25 Sep 2006 Tony Blair is
being compared to Hitler in an advertising campaign against ID cards.
The advert - sponsored by the Lib-Dem party and Labour MP Diane Abbott,
and supported by Blur's Damon Albarn - is running in newspapers and
on billboards and shows a photo of the Prime Minister with a barcode
on his lip like the Nazi leader's moustache. The caption reads: "ID
cards have worked well in Europe before." Campaign group NO2ID is behind
the advert. [Great ad!]

O'Connor
warns of growing efforts at 'judicial intimidation' 27 Sep 2006
Retired US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned Wednesday
against growing efforts at "judicial intimidation" in the United States...
Earlier this year, both O'Connor and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg said they had received death threats after Republican politicians
criticized judges for citing foreign law or being "activist" in their
rulings.

Olbermann:
Threatening letter no joke --Keith Olbermann responds to the
New York Post's report 27 Sep 2006 The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper,
The New York Post, may have just impeded an FBI investigation into terroristic
threats. I know this because I was a recipient... We will not be intimidated
here. "Whether they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known.
Olbermann had no comment." [New York Post article]
What they gave me on the way out was not a lollipop, but a prescription
for Cipro, the antibiotic most frequently used in the event of exposure
to Anthrax.

Metra
Train Photo Ban 'Clarified' --Train Enthusiasts Can Continue
Taking Photos 28 Sep 2006 A photo ban that had been issued by the
Union Pacific Railroad for its public Metra stops has been "clarified,"
officials said, to allow train enthusiasts to continue taking pictures.
Union Pacific had issued the ban on its Metra stops for security reasons,
NBC5 reported. The new policy will allow photos, but suspicious activity
would also allow any employee to question the photographer.

EU
states back limits on liquids aboard planes 27 Sep 2006 The
European Union moved closer to adopting new, uniform rules on airline
security on Wednesday after aviation experts backed proposals to limit
the amount of liquids passengers may take aboard planes.

Four
banks helped me, Enron's Fastow says
27 Sep 2006 Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron,
sought yesterday to implicate four banks, including Barclays and Royal
Bank of Scotland, by claiming that they had devised structures that
helped him to hide losses. His claims form the most detailed accusation
yet against the four — which also include Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse
— of their involvement in the collapse of Enron, the energy giant that
went bankrupt in 2001.

GOP
Attack Calls May Violate Fed Rules
By Paul Kiel 27 Sep 2006 Starting about four weeks ago, Paige Barnes
said she started getting "tons of calls a day," sometimes between ten
and twenty, from angry West Virginians and Iowans, demanding that her
company stop bombarding them with political calls... She didn't know
it, but Barnes was the latest victim of the GOP's newest, biggest attack
machine, the innocuously-named Economic
Freedom Fund. Without her knowledge or consent, a "robo calling"
firm appears to have used Barnes' company name to make thousands
of negative campaign calls for EFF, attacking Democratic congressional
candidates... Such caller ID "spoofing," as
the practice is known, may violate FCC rules.

Democrats
line up lawyers 26 Sep 2006 Democrats are openly lining up Election
Day teams of lawyers across the country to fight what they allege could
be GOP efforts to suppress votes. The parties’ efforts come after the
2000 'recount' [coup d'etat] in Florida and irregularities in Ohio’s
'elections' [coup d'etat] two years ago.

Feingold,
Kerry Introduce Resolution Urging Back-Up Plans for Voting Machines
--Difficulties with Recent Primary Elections Highlight Need for Back-Up
Systems Like Paper Ballots 27 Sep 2006 U.S. Senators Russ Feingold
(D-WI) and John Kerry (D-MA) have introduced a resolution calling on
state and local governments to have back-up systems in place on election
day to ensure that every eligible voter who wants to vote is able to.

Scientists
infect mice with reconstructed version of deadly 1918 flu virus
28 Sep 2006 The 1918 Spanish flu that killed up to 50 million people
worldwide caused a severe immune response which may help to explain
why it was so deadly, American scientists said on Wednesday. By
infecting mice with a reconstructed version of the 1918 virus
and monitoring their response, a team of scientists believe they have
found some clues to solve the puzzle as well as a possible new way to
fight [foment] pandemic flu.

Possible
Bird Flu Cluster Develops In Indonesia 27 Sep 2006 Indonesia,
the country hardest hit by avian influenza, has seen a number of human
infections and at least one fatality in recent days, causing concern
among health and veterinary officials that an infection cluster may
have emerged.

Stubborn
SoCal Blaze Won't Die --Winds Could Whip Up Wildfire That's
Been Burning Since Labor Day 28 Sep 2006 Crews braced Thursday for irregular
winds and dry weather as they battled a massive wildfire [the 'Day fire']
that threatened hundreds of dwellings in rural Southern California.
The fire has been burning since Labor Day and has flared several times,
sometimes covering thousands of acres in hours.

New
York to outlaw trans fats in 24,000 restaurants --City health
board acts over heart disease worries --Food outlets face limit of half
gram per serving 28 Sep 2006 New York is set to become the first city
in the US to ban all but tiny quantities of trans fats from being used
in its 24,000 restaurants.